Laura Notario

People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely, and nobody has a clue what the cause is. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution, but his theory of killer slugs is laughed at by the authorities. Only when the body count begins to rise and a slug expert from England begins snooping around does it begin to look like Mike had the right idea after all.

Told in flashback, Federico lives in a poor neighbourhood with his siblings and his single mother, working helping in a local bar, he meets Claudio, who begins to lead him on an easy life making him abandon all his connections in consequence.

Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.