Enrique Jardiel Poncela (1901-1952) was a well-known Spanish playwright.
Tin Tan falls in love with a young woman who does not love him, but when he wins the lottery she changes her mind.
Fernando, who has returned to his hometown after studying in Brussels, finds a strange suicide note written by his father ten years earlier.
Debauched playboy has a hypochondriac streak and an unscrupulous doctor that profits from it.