一个白领高阶主管爱上了一个街坊邻近的男孩，并开始踏进放浪形骸的生活世界。在这个灰色地带里翻滚的混沌角色，比如Rosa，一个背着丈夫和邻里的男孩偷情的女人，街坊间的妓女，帮派的混混，地痞流氓们等，都注定了剧中主角的命运。

A recent widow has invited a group of family friends to her large and secluded country home. However, what the guests don't know is that the reason they've been assembled is that their host suspects one of them might be her husband's killer and she's intent on uncovering the identity of his murderer. As the guests begin to suspect each other, revealing long-kept and sinister secrets in the process, an unknown, black-gloved killer begins bumping them off in a variety of nasty ways.

古巴驻美大使在纽约市，当著古巴军事情报局头子陶瑞纳及其首席副官捐安贝格多的面前遭人刺杀，美国联邦警长麦克陶思的训练师亚历克斯瑞德及中情局中级官员指派他，必须在该名刺客再度杀之前追捕到她，中情局认为那件暗杀是席梦依罗宾蒂所为，她是一名年轻美丽的法国刺客，德恩不这么认为，因席梦依自１９８８年起就未曾再涉入暗杀行动，尽管如此，德恩必须在古／美高峰会议召开前，只有４８小时的时间在布拉客找到席梦依。

本片是西班牙独裁统治崩溃后，巴尔登执导的第一部影片，具有“公路片”特质。以现实主义、幽默色调，通过男主一路的见闻反映现实，让男主思考，最后结束旅游返回马德里，他的情感已发生很大变化。巴尔登曾说“电影就是证明，否则就什么也不是。”