Pepa Marcos embarks on a strange journey to determine why her lover Ivan suddenly left her. Along the way she encounters a Shiite terrorist cell holding her best friend hostage, Ivan's son and his fiancée.

Disillusioned film director Toby is pulled into a time-jumping fantasy when he is mistaken for Sancho Panza, Don Quixote's sidekick.

A successful romance novelist becomes estranged from her increasingly distant soldier husband. She develops a relationship with a sensitive newspaper editor as she tries to re-evaluate her writing.

Famous American author Nicholas brings Kika, a cosmetologist, to prepare the corpse of his recently deceased son, Ramon. She inadvertently revives the young man and falls for him, but Nicholas wants her as well.

Two women wind up sharing a hospital room when they each go into labour. Both are single, but one is exultant and the other is terrified. They form a very close bond that changes their lives.