On her 40th birthday, Elia gathers together a few select relatives and friends at a luxury country house to tell them some extraordinary news: she has won a jackpot of 140,000,000€. From that moment onwards, the atmosphere becomes increasingly tense and what started off as shared happiness, gradually transforms into greedy plotting to take Elia’s fortune.
With an excellent cast of familiar faces from Spanish cinema, Querejeta astutely plays with a familiar question: can money buy you happiness? As the plot makes its ingenious twists and turns, the hallowed jackpot creates as many problems as solutions, and this weekend of extraordinary events reveals Elia’s true friends once and for all.
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