The story follows Pepa (Carmen Maura), an actress who is abruptly dumped by her lover, Iván, via an answering machine message. As she tries to track him down to deliver important news, her apartment becomes a revolving door for his son, his son's fiancée, a fugitive best friend, and a very suspicious batch of gazpacho spiked with sleeping pills.
The rain started at midnight, not as a drizzle but as a torrent . It hammered the skylight of Pepa’s Madrid penthouse like a thousand tiny fists. She stood by the phone, wearing only one earring—the other lost somewhere in the cab that had brought her home from the airport. Mujeres Al Borde De Un Ataque De Nervios Torrent-