Mentally unstable, nightmare-plagued recluse Carlos becomes obsessed with his beautiful neighbor Berta. He also has a seemingly normal greenhouse where strange things happen inside.
Several sketches of erotic character tell the stories, among others, of a man whith a heart condition that has never been with a woman; that of a young couple quarreling about how much they love each other; that of a man whom in his deathbed makes his wife promise to remake her life with his best friend; of the arts of seduction of a waiter with an enigmatic French woman...
In this docudrama, life in a Catalan village in the early years of the Franco era (1939-1975) is chronicled.
