A successful romance novelist becomes estranged from her increasingly distant soldier husband. She develops a relationship with a sensitive newspaper editor as she tries to re-evaluate her writing.

An overworked Madrid housewife does her best to hold on to her sanity in the face of the difficulties posed by living in a tiny apartment with an assortment of trying relatives.

Pepa Marcos embarks on a strange journey to determine why her lover Ivan suddenly left her. Along the way she encounters a Shiite terrorist cell holding her best friend hostage, Ivan's son and his fiancée.

A nightclub singer seeks refuge in a nunnery following the overdose death of her boyfriend, but she soon discovers the lifestyle of the nuns involves soft porn and drugs.

Nurse Benigno becomes infatuated with Alicia as he watches her dance from his apartment. She arrives at a local hospital after a car accident and Benigno acts as her caregiver. A bullfighter comes to the ward and her companion bonds with Benigno.