Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age. She can be feisty and edgy, which sometimes gets in the way of what would make her happy. And she regularly threatens to leave Antonio. Will she, and on what terms? What will he do?
Acting
Maura's volcanic restraint—every eye roll is architecture.
Direction
Belén's debut captures the texture of lived female exhaustion.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes the mundane: 'I'm late because I exist.'
Director
Ana Belén
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Spain's post-Franco feminist wave, the film captures a generation negotiating new freedoms against persistent machismo.
Director Ana Belén was already a massive singer-actress; this was her audacious pivot behind camera, casting her friend Maura in what became a signature role.
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