A man returns to a city to try to track down a woman he met six years earlier.
An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.
During a brief rule towards the end of the 19th century, the Italian duke Amadeo of Savoy occupied the Spanish throne. However, confined to the safety of life within the palace walls, the lonely, frustrated king and his servants succumb to playful adventures focused more on pleasure than his duties.
