Distraught by the break-up with her actor boyfriend Iván (Fernando Guillén), pregnant actress Pepa (Carmen Maura) prepares a gazpacho laced with sleeping pills. She is however saved from suicide by her best friend Candela (María Barranco), a fugitive from justice. Pepa's ex-lover's grown son (Antonio Banderas) arrives with wife-to-be Marisa (Rossy de Palma) in answer to Carmen's "room to let" newspaper ad. Marisa inadvertently ingests the gazpacho...

The story of a retired torero and a beautiful lawyer who both need death as an aphrodisiac. The lovers are brought together when a young bullfighting student confesses to a string of murders.

On a pleasant autumn day in the year 1357, Pedro, King of Portugal, sets out on a hunt, accompanied by a group of his companions. He soon discovers that wild boar are not his only quarry. Not far from the city of Santarém, where the court is in residence, they find a body in a field, face disfigured, clothes stained and tattered. Was this unfortunate a pilgrim or a beggar? Was he the victim of robbers or did he provoke the anger of a fellow traveler?...

A collection of four separately published stories featuring Pedro, Katie Woo's classmate and friend.

"Pedro collects a lot of different bugs for a class assignment, but when his brother lets them out in the house their parents are furious, and ban any further collecting." --

"Pedro forms a new club with his friends dedicated to solving mysteries--and the first two assignments are finding his mother's locket, and his father's cell phone." --

"Pedro is excited for his class's trip to the aquarium, but when he gets separated from the others near the shark tank, he gets frightened and starts running to and fro--until he takes a hint from the shark to stop going in circles." --

Something in Miss Winkle's classroom smells really bad, and when the class bully declares that it must be the new boy, Pablo, Pedro steps in to defend him--but the class still needs to know what is causing the stench and dispose of it.--

"El entrenador Rush está buscando un arquero para el próximo gran partido de fútbol. Pedro quiere el puesto, pero teme ser demasiado lento y demasiado pequeño. Solo puede hader una cosa: ¡practicar! ¿Podrá Pedro lograr su gran objetivo?" -- "Pedro would love to be the goalie in the team's first game, but another boy is bigger--so all his friends come over to help him practice before the tryout." --