Granada. 20th century. A man and a woman walk away from a
ski slope. The man (
the singer) recriminates the woman (May) about her decision to leave [the band] (
Los Planetas). The woman recalls that was not the way things happened, and proceeds to narrate her version, the version of a
bassist who performed live with her back to the audience and the member who left the musical act. According to her, at 27 years old, when the other members wanted to release an album, the woman simply wanted to depart. The band's guitarist plays some guitar chords to the singer. The films depicts the singer and the guitarist awkwardly performing at a television show along with pre-recorded music, the guitarist's struggles with substance abuse, the singer and the guitarist asking a reluctant record company in
Madrid to record their third album in
New York City, the singer and the guitarist search for a drummer and a bassist, managing to recruit the former, who divagates about what makes Granada special about its musical scene. The plot depicts the guitarist's hallucinations and fantasies after a gig, a casual meeting of the guitarist with May, who has started a university degree, and a guitarist's mishap that lands him in hospital, with his hands bandaged. While having a full lineup, the band struggles to meet their creative deadlines with the label, and the guitarist tells the singer that May did not leave because of the accident stuff. The singer meets with a defiant May at the university and they later talk and smoke on a terrace. After attending the same
procession, the drummer and the guitarist meet and question's about the singer's NYC plans. The guitarist experiences hallucinations with NYC. The guitarist proposes to the singer and the drummer to seclude themselves to meet their creative deadlines with the album. The group showcases their advances to the music label executives. The singer is pushed to continue working on a hit song and suggested to leave the guitarist behind should they travel to NYC to record the album. The singer phones May to talk about the band's advances and fails to convince her into rejoining the band. The singer finally travels to NYC without the guitarist, who was taken to Madrid by Santa to undergo some rehab. The memory of the guitarist haunts the singer, who phones the guitarist and proposes him to rejoin the band in NYC. The guitarist and the singer meet again there and the band records the third album, ''''. May receives a
compact disc copy of the album. == Cast ==