You know what it's like. You go out partying. You drink too much. The next morning you wake up in bed with someone and you don't even know each other's names.
Okay, I admit that it's never happened to me. I've never drunk so much that I forgot the night before. And I've never woken up next to a stranger, especially not someone as beautiful as the Spanish actress Michelle Jenner, who plays Julia. The man in her bed is Julio. The biggest problem with the situation is that she lives with her boyfriend Carlos, who is away on business but could return at any time. There is an unnatural calm over the city. Madrid has a population of more than five million people, but the streets are empty. The phones, the television and the Internet aren't working. They finally hear a report on the radio that the Earth has been invaded by flying saucers, and all the major cities have been evacuated. Wow, they missed all that? It must have been some party! How much did they drink?
The only other person in the city is Angel, a single man who lives next door to Julia. Carlos returns from a refugee camp the next day looking for Julia. Angel threatens to tell Carlos that Julia and Julio have had sex, so an intricate game of deception begins. They convince Carlos that Angel is an alien who has infiltrated the population.
The film is very minimalist. For most of the film we only see the four characters, until they meet a fifth person late in the film. Despite the sci-fi background it's not a sci-fi film. It's about the complications of a drunken night out. The alien invasion is just an added difficulty in dealing with Julia's mistake.
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