Carlos Durán

A seventeen-year-old boy, Jose Maria (played by Victoria Abril) leaves his small village and machismo father to become transsexual nightclub entertainer Maria Jose in the big city of Barcelona. There, she falls in love with the club's owner, causing even greater gender questions to arise, while continuing on her journey of self-discovery.

A drug has been discovered, Liberxina 90, which will erase "establishment" conditioning from the human mind. It has fallen into the hands of some diversely anarchistic revolutionaries who spend most of the film discussing how and whether to use it; should they wait for the forces of "history" to undermine society or speed things up using the drug? They are finally forced into action by the police who are, somewhat ineptly, hunting them down

Along with narrating the adventures and misadventures of its protagonists, the film presents a fresco of Spain in the 60s, with its rock music, fashion, and a visual style clearly indebted to the French New Wave.