Silvio Lisboa has got a lot of money and since last year a lover, the famous and well-known interior designer Claudia Riera. The man has also got an obsession: to meet up with her in secret in Room 1817 in the Hotel Princesa Sofia. Silvio lives, to be precise near the hotel, a conventional life with Marcia, his wife, a neurotic pleasure seeker who only finds relief in drinks made from mate (a traditional South American drink made from the leaves of the coca plant) mixed with aspirin which Mariela, her Peruvian maid prepares for her. However their domestic calm is disturbed when a phone call announces the imminent visit of Claudia, who wants to write an article on the Lisboa’s home. Marcia goes mad getting the flat ready and leaves no detail out: the event is worthy of it. The visit, however, ends in tragedy as Claudia finds out about Silvio’s sick obsession. The enraged interior decorator cancels the article in revenge and ends her clandestine affair. Marcia can’t bear it and becomes depressed. To get over her depression she has a face-lift and the married couple go to Cadaques, a village at the Costa Brava, for a few weeks. She needs to heal her scars from the operation and he his from his traumatic break-up.

Shot in: Barcelona, Cadaqués, Canet de Mar, Girona, Platja d'Aro.

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