No matter how many times he hears that he must take
life as it comes, and how much his healthnut of a
wife tries to make him follow a boringly healthy lifestyle, Luis continues to
live under constant stress. His first wife, Carmen, has married his cousin
Oscar, a social climber who has not only taken his wife from him, but also the
job position that Luis was striving for in the wind power company where he
works. Between his mother’s many phone calls to talk about her blood pressure,
Luis tries to solve his younger son’s conflicts at school, to worry about the
problems that his older children have with designer drugs, to come to terms
with the fact that he is still in love with Carmen, and to applaud the actions
of a peculiar clown whom he comes to know thanks to his children. Meanwhile,
the wind turns the blades of the wind turbines like the hands of a clock
counting down the remainder of his life. So between growing pains and
experiences that set him at the limit, the unstable balance of the initial situation
becomes an uncontrollable imbalance full of hilarious turns. Berges offers us a very funny sitcom where he once again
manages to interweave the comical and the profoundly moving.
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