Palencia, Spain, late 1990s. While Gema and Toribio, who live in their own cloud of precarious happiness, always smile stupidly as if they have to apologize for something they have not actually done, their little son Martín suffers, every day at school, an unbearable ordeal, tragic but also comical, that they, a peer of daydreaming simpletons, are unaware of.

Mamá es boba

A destitute and unemployed Arturo is desperate to find a place to stay. He gets more than he bargained for when he enters a program that asks students to stay with and look after senior citizens.