Carmen Maura

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.

Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.

While a woman attempts to cover up her daughter's murder and reinvent her life, her sister is visited by their mother, who was thought to have died.

A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.

Julia, a real estate agent, finds an enormous amount of money hidden in a dead man's apartment, a stroke of luck that will force her to face the wrath of the very peculiar inhabitants ...