Pedro Uris

Documentary about the movie theaters in Valencia that, since the seventies, had been closed or turned into department stores and bingo halls; dream spaces of Valencian cinephilia such as the Cine Alameda.

One night, while Raul is with his girlfriend in his car, he sees how two boys are beating another one. Raul saves the guy, Alex, frightening the other two, and proposes a revenge to him: to burn their car. Thus they do it and it creates a link between them: from that moment they will be burning cars through the city and they will record it in video to upload it later on the Internet. A year later, while they are burning a car, an old man is injured when he tries to extinguish the fire. Alex goes to help it while Raul flees. Alex and the old man, Antonio, goes to the hospital, where the boy knows Isabel, Antonio's granddaughter. Isabel studies and works, and now, without a car, the things will become more difficult to her. Alex quickly feels attracted by Isabel; they become good friends and Alex is moved away of Raul in spite of his attempts recover him.

Following the failed prison escape depicted in the film 'The Hole' (Le Trou by Jacques Becker, 1960), its protagonist finds himself locked in solitary confinement. An evocation of the world of crime and prison that surrounded the work and life of José Giovanni, author of the novel that inspired Becker's essential film.

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