Lorenzo is a writer who lives in Madrid. Due to the exhaustion of his thinking, he has not published his works for two years, and his life is very difficult. Although the material life is not rich, the emotional life is wonderful.
He had three lovers. The first lover was met six years ago on a trip to a small island in the Mediterranean, a woman from Valencia named Elena who was a chef who made paella. The two are just a one-night stand relationship, without giving each other names, doing so can love without scruples, separated simply freely, without entanglement afterwards. Unexpectedly, Elena soon found out that she was pregnant, and since her husband was busy with work all day and did not have time to pay attention to her, Elena directly informed her husband that the child was not his, and ran away from home to Madrid to find Lorenzo. After searching for nothing, Elena went to the tourist island where the one-night stand had taken place, and waited for Lorenzo to appear while starting a hotel business. Because it is not the peak season, the hotel has only one customer who likes to dive for the time being called Carlos. The two had more contact with each other and warmed up their feelings, and they became lovers one after another.
Time goes back to the present, and the second lover, Lucia, the heroine of the film, appears. Lorenzo and his friend Pepe were talking about writing in a café, where they met Lucia. Lucia is the waitress of the opposite restaurant, she is a fan of Lorenzo, has read many of his works, and has been secretly following, she is deeply in love with Lorenzo from the heart. Lucia stepped forward to take the initiative to confess her heart, Lorenzo was the prodigal son of the love scene, and the two quickly fell in love with each other. The two stick together all day, playing with tricks, and always playing enough. Lorenzo continued to write novels, and Lucia was the first reader, offering her views and opinions at the right time, and the two got along sweetly.
At Lorenzo's birthday party, his friend Pepe brought him a message. Elena gave birth to a girl, who was identified by checking clues to be Lorenzo's daughter. Pepe suggested that he find children, and that the novels based on this theme must have sold well. Lorenzo found the four-year-old girl named Xiao Yue in the square, who was carried by a beautiful nurse named Belen. By the way, this paramedic Belém was Lorenzo's third lover.
It turned out that after giving birth to the child, Elena had no time to take care of the hotel, so she entrusted her friend Belen to help take care of it. Belém's mother was originally a film actor who has never been married, and the daughter bellen born does not know whose species, and the stepfather Anthony is found after the mother, and is not related to Belen. Belén is an adult and needs to find a boyfriend, Lorenzo just happens to like Belen, and the two hold hands smoothly. Unexpectedly, there was an accident on a date at Xiaoyue's house, the two were ready to do something indescribable, Xiaoyue sleepwalked and was killed by the private black dog brought by Belen, and the sudden change caused Lorenzo's mentality to collapse, and he jumped out of the window to escape. Belén fell to the ground and was over-admitted to the hospital because of his sadness.
Lorenzo was devastated, he was in a trance, no longer caring for Lucia as he had been, and the two began to quarrel from time to time. Lucia accepted the boss's banquet in a huff, and also had an intimate relationship, which intensified the contradiction between the two. Deeply troubled by mental illness, Lorenzo was unable to calm down and write, so he left Lucia a note to run away from home and was unfortunately caught in a car accident on the way.
Belém's family also had an accident, Belén and his mother were killed in bed, the stepfather Anthony was missing, and the police wanted him.
Lucia, believing that Lorenzo had been killed in a car accident, sadly came to the island that Lorenzo had mentioned. Meet Carlos at the seaside, who takes her to see Elena. After chatting deeper, the two discover that they love the same person---- Lorenzo. It is also discovered that Carlos is the stepfather of Anthony --- Belém, who is wanted by the police for murder. Watching Elena call the police, Carlos fled into the wilderness.
Recovering from his injuries, Lorenzo arrives on the island in search of the shadow of the past, meets Elena who is driving out, and the two unexpectedly reunite and hug each other. Lucia saw it from a distance, and she knowingly avoided it. When she returned to the hotel to chat with Elena in the lobby, Lorenzo made a grand appearance like a star, this time hugging Lucia tightly.
I believe that everyone is interested in how these three people will get along in the future? Both love Lorenzo, and Lorenzo loves both. It is estimated that the director did not know how to act at this time, so the film ended here. I think things are not so simple, the director left us with an open ending, which means that as the viewer thinks, you want the ending to be what it is. This open ending is a form of expression in Spanish cinema, and the previously written "The Dark Side" is also such an ending, and existence is reasonable acceptance.
Given that the film disrupts the chronological order, the director is free to do whatever he wants, interjecting everywhere, which seems quite brain-intensive, and advises viewers to be patient.