An esteemed piano tuner and repairer, Jacobo leads an apparently happy life with his wife, Helena. His serene existence is thrown into a state of confusion when insomnia creeps in, and pianos that previously repaired miraculously overnight remain unfixed. Jacobo plunges into paranoia and madness, hearing noises during the night and having ephemeral visions of a stranger roaming the house in a dressing gown. Helena reassuringly denies anything out of the ordinary, and suspiciously insists he is hallucinating. Is the life we think safe and secure true, or is there a second reality lurking? THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE IS NOT BEING DEAD is a tale of betrayal and forgiveness in a rich musical universe, set against the Franco era, a period of political deceit and distorted reality in Spain. Playfully, the tragicomedy questions our perception of reality and the vulnerability of our human condition.
Tony, the owner of a small fantastic film video shop, has found out that at times reality can defy science-fiction. The time has come to embark on a trip to a place nobody has ever been to before.
In France, a near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the principles of the Doctrine.
Exasperated and megalomaniac director Carlos Atanes, takes the charge of produce a pilot program for the television, but his interests walks on another way: he wants to leave the audiovisual world definitively, by the most drastic way: hang himself by the neck. Intrepid journalist Diana forces him to fight against his own ghosts. So, both of them live an exciting underground adventure in Barcelona cinema's drains, peopled by the most raved and bizarre characters: rude and wretched producers, revenger and freakish actresses, survival actors, hyper-violent technicians who goes in front of camera...