Realistically, when you’ve just had a new child, that’s not the time to be buying a new coffee table. It’s more of a time to be economising and also child-proofing your furniture. But try telling that to Jesús (David Pareja), who, over the objections of his wife María (Estefanía de los Santos) drops ludicrous money on a ludicrously garish table, with a little help from the technique of a very slimy salesman (Eduardo Antuña). Perhaps Jesús is simply trying to impress his brother and his brother’s much-younger, vegan girlfriend, since they’re coming over for a dinner party that very night.
In any case, while María heads out to pick up some wine, Jesús finds himself alone in the flat and disaster soon strikes. In the madness of the moment, he decides not to let on that anything is wrong, and so, the dinner party plays out in half-farce, half-Pinteresque fashion with Jesús’ increasingly desperate attempts not to let on that anything is wrong creating a derangedly dark comedy, its different moving parts orchestrated deliciously by director/co-writer Caye Casas (Killing God).