Love of great literature is one of the outstanding features of South American culture. This Argentine drama, mixes imagination and "reality" and includes a film-within-a-film story about making a film about Kafka. The writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born to a German Jewish family in Czechoslovakia. In an uncanny way which prefigured the Holocaust, Kafka wrote about absurd, terrifying situations taking place in a nihilistic universe in which almost everyone can be considered a victim. The movie explores his romantic and intellectual life before he died at age 41 of tuberculosis. Sigmund Freud, whom Kafka never actually met, makes an appearance in the story. The film-within-a-film has an Argentine movie director travel to Prague to try and produce a film there about Kafka's loves, only to discover that the studio there is busy filming Amadeus. Though these elements are confusing to read about, some reviewers felt that the director somehow made a coherent and enjoyable film out of them.

一个在西班牙马德里的普拉度美术馆工作的女孩，始终迷恋着一幅年代久远的佛兰德斯画作。画中描绘了一个弹钢琴的女子以及一个在观察她的男子，女子将其想象成自己的导师和爱人。现在，美术馆女孩深信自己就是画中的那名女子，而她不久前邂逅的一个陌生人也正是画中的男子。