Four thieves have obtained one hundred and fifty million pesetas in a robbery. Too much money for them to be content with handing it out. Each one of them wants to keep everything and the war between the four begins. The most daring tries a pact with the police. You will be free if you hand over to your companions. Things will happen very differently.
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter.
Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art.