Fernando Sorrentino

When Lisandro's key breaks in the lock one morning, he finds himself trapped inside his tenth floor apartment. Struggling against time and the locked door to avoid being late for work, Lisandro begins to realize his predicament is considerably more serious than he thought.

Every day in Petar's life is worse than the previous one, which means that every new day is the worst day in his life, until... one day a mysterious, mute stranger starts hitting Petar at his head with an umbrella. He hits without an intention to stop. Whatever Petar does to liberate himself from this menace, the strange little man is constantly by his side.

Angélica, a Spanish expatriate living in San Diego, visits Tijuana for the first time and discovers the American Immigration Service will not let her return home to San Diego. She is further frustrated because the American Consulate is inexplicably unavailable to help her. While waiting for the consulate, she encounters an itinerate musician, a mute trombonist, who gets her attention by tapping her on the head with his trombone slide...

A young man, who just graduated from university, just started to work on his first job at an office. Although this is the moment he worked and studied for really hard, not long after a very unsatisfied feeling about his life starts to pop up. This feeling is visualized by a strange looking man who, from one day to another, starts to hit the young man randomly on his head with a newspaper. When the strange man proofs not to be easily get rid of, absurd situations follow that eventually drive the young man to revise choices that he made earlier in his life.