In 9177, give or take a thousand years (there's no point in being finicky about these details) the whole world, and, according to some authors, the universe too, has been reduced to a single Representative Building and squalid suburbs inhabited by all of the out-of-work and hungry in the cosmos. One of the down and outs, José María, decides that by facing up to the difficulties and selling his delicious homemade lemonade in the Representative Building, another world is possible.
José Luis Cuerda debuted as a director with Pares y nones (San Sebastian Official Selection, 1982). His absurd and surrealist humour permeates titles such as Total (1983), Así en el cielo como en la Tierra (On Earth As It Is In Heaven, 1995) or Amanece, que no es poco (1988). He competed yet again in San Sebastian with El bosque animado (The Enchanted Forest, 1987) and presented, out of competition, La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly’s Tongue, 1999), Goya for Best Adapted Screenplay, an award he also won for Los girasoles ciegos (The Blind Sunflowers, 2008). Two of his productions have won the Goya for Best Film: Tesis (Thesis, 1997) and Los otros (The Others, 2002), both directed by Alejandro Amenábar.