When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.

　　护瓜英雄传，现代西部片

　　Former secret agent Robert Elliot (Coburn) will be promoted to government advisor. In order to make sure no-one will ever know about his dirty past, he has invented a very ingenious plan to get rid of his four helpers: he gets them all to unknowingly kill each other in the course of a single night.

　　一艘以超光速推进的离地球58光年的飞船“黑星球号”发生了故障，指挥官死亡，因为太远地球基地已经没有能力给与协助。船上的其他四名宇航员必须继续执行他们的任务——摧毁最后一颗不稳定的行星，完成殖民化清空。宇航员们已经离开地球20个地球年，但他们只老了3岁，无聊的太空生活无时不在折磨着他们。