Pello, a bank branch manager, is arrested for financial fraud. Abandoned by the superior who got him mixed up in the crime, he scarpers to avoid going to jail and becomes a fugitive. By chance he ends up hiding in a building occupied by battling evicted tenants. Pello earns the group’s trust with the intention of stealing enough cash from them to pay for false documents, move abroad and start a new life.
Patxo Telleria (Bilbao, 1960) has written around a dozen plays and the scripts for some of the most successful Basque television series (Bi eta bat, Jaun ta jabe, Maite). In 2008 he wrote and directed (with Aitor Mazo) La máquina de pintar nubes, Versión Española Best Screenplay Award, premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2009. In 2012 he premiered his second feature at Zinemaldia, Bypass, with his own screenplay and co-helmed with Aitor Mazo, winner of the Best Comedy Award at Michigan’s Traverse City Film Festival.