Médico de familia, Compañeros and the aforementioned
Un paso adelante, on which he worked alongside the two lead actors from this film. In addition, the Madrilenian director has shot movies in Romania (see the news) and the USA.
Principal photography took place over a period of five weeks, beginning on 18 November last year in various locations in Cantabria, and topped off with shoots in London and Madrid. The plot, written by
José Luis Feito, tells of how Pedro (played by Muñoz), an unemployed architect staying with his uncle Luis (Puyol), a doctor who is similarly between jobs, hears the news about the passing of his granddad Paco, whom he never met but who was also an architect (albeit a successful one). Paco emigrated to Mexico and has now bequeathed the film’s titular animals to him. And so the two men set off on a journey to the north of Spain with the intention of selling said livestock, but the situations they get themselves into once there will force them to chang