Marcos Vela is a prestigious gastronomic journalist who accepts the request of an independent publisher to write an article on the recent emergence of the Clandestine Restaurants.
The film centers on a Spanish tapas bar and the love lives of the loosely interconnected people in the neighborhood surrounding the bar. The pairs of lovers include a middle aged woman and a young man; an elderly, drug dealing woman and her terminally ill husband in poor health; the tapas bar owner and his estranged wife; and two Chinese immigrants.
Greenland, 1908. Josephine, self-confident and bold wife of famous Arctic explorer Robert Peary, embarks on a dangerous journey in pursuit of her husband who is seeking a route to the North Pole. But Josephine is also naïve and ignores warnings from experienced polar travellers about the onset of winter. At great sacrifice the expedition reaches Peary's base camp. Josephine refuses to go home and wants to spend winter in the hut. Only the young Inuit woman Allaka, who lives in an igloo and knows about the cold, stays with her. As the long nights draw nearer, Josephine realises she has more in common with this woman from a different world than she thought.
Gregorio is a very conservative banker from Madrid (Spain's capital, at the center of the country), supporter of Real Madrid's soccer team and full of right-wing ideas, who is married with the more comprehensive María, being parents of three children: the older, Sandra, who is married with Jordi, a Catalonian supporter of the Barça's soccer team (Real Madrid's main rival); the middle Alicia, a free-spirited sweetheart that is dating with Leo, a perroflauta (Spanish for dreadlock) anti-system and anarchist Andalusian, and younger Carlos, a sensitive gay who is the boyfriend of Eneko, a black man born in Basque Country but that his parents are from Senegal. After of the sudden death of María in a run over, the family moves to San Lúcar de Barrameda (Andalucia, south to Spain) for the María's burial, and in addition to follow the María's last will for spending a weekend all together to roughen the roughness. But the different secrets of the Gregorio's children will complicate it: Sandra ... Written by Chockys