José (Eusebio Poncela), a struggling filmmaker, receives a reel of film and a cassette from a weirdo he met with an inexplicable connection, much more avant-garde and experimental, but a shared love for the transcendence of art and also heroin. The film and soundtrack detail Pedro's (Will More) documentation of himself sleeping. An accident at first, but when he notices a section that's blanked out in the middle, a mystery to be solved. But the missing sections keep growing the longer the camera is on him, and he fears that he is losing more than just film.
If the only Spanish movies you ever saw were this and Pain and Glory, you'd think that every single Spanish person was a bisexual heroin addict.
It is an interesting movie but not one I enjoyed. It's a lot of commentary on unhealthy obsessions in relationships, work, and recreation, the consuming power of art, and of course, drugs. There are no real scares, everything is basically Vibes, there's no gore, very very little blood, and the main actor looks way too much like Riffraff from Rocky Horror. It is currently streaming on Criterion.
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