A medieval alchemist (Klaus Kinski), knight (Harvey Keitel) and priest (Fernando Rey) mistake a flying-saucer alien for a dragon.

結褵25 年，卡洛斯口裡心裡只剩下皇家馬德里足球隊，曾經耀眼如烈陽的卡門也早已高掛舞鞋安分當個家庭主婦。無趣的生活彷彿沒有盡頭，直到卡洛斯上台擔任催眠秀的志願者，舞台上鬧劇般的演出，竟在冥冥之中推動了改變的齒輪。
　　從不做家事的卡洛斯開始打掃，甚至與老婆熱情共舞。儘管卡門極度滿意這個浪漫、體貼，又有著卡洛斯外貌的「新老公」，但心底還是滿滿的不安。究竟是催眠太成功，讓他變身新好男人？還是催眠不成招鬼上門，搶走身體踢掉老公靈魂？卡門開始追查，沒想到竟牽扯出一樁多年前駭人聽聞的命案！

Six characters – contemporary archetypes of urban solitude – meet in an old apartment located in the city center of Barcelona. An elderly married couple, her brother and three tenants: a blonde woman who gives French classes, a young security guard, ex-football player and a young, pregnant South American girl. The old man, who was formerly a doorman at the opera and who likes to dress up in women’s clothes, gets them all together and asks them to leave as he is going to die and wants to be alone for the last stage of his life.

Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.

Luis, a Spanish student, goes to London to get a course in Economics. He lives at a house the neighbor of her aunt, but when she broke up with her husband, Luis goes to live with her.