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SYNOPSIS
The curtain of salmon colored roses and heavy gold
fringing which covers the stage is pulled back to reveal
a Pina Bausch spectacle, Café Müller. Among
the spectators, two men are sitting together by chance.
They don't know each other. They are Benigno (a young
nurse) and Marco (a writer in his early forties). On
the stage, filled with wooden chairs and tables, two
women, their eyes closed and their arms extended, are
moving to the music of The Fairy Queen, by Henry Purcell.
The piece is so moving that Marco starts to cry. Benigno
can see the gleam of his chance companion's tears, in
the darkness of the stalls. He'd like to tell him that
he too is moved by the spectacle but he doesn't dare.
Months later, the two men meet again at "El Bosque",
a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's
girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been
gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is
looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young
ballet student.
When Marco walks by the door of Alicia's room, Benigno
doesn't think twice before speaking to him. It's the
start of an intense friendship... as lineal as a roller
coaster. During this period of suspended time between
the walls of the clinic, the lives of the four characters
will flow in all directions, past, present and future,
dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny.
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