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EL CLUB DE LOS ESTRELLADOS
Francho, a vocational postman and unavoidably single due to his appearance, leads a routine, neat and tidy life. Every day he has breakfast and lunch with Hortensia at his best friend’s cafe, and weekends he lets the latter drag him to his amateur astronomy group, a peculiar club of solitary men who shelter one another. Everyone is surprised that Francho never speaks about women. He is not known to have had any relationships either. They are all unaware that, in fact, Francho enjoys a solitary pleasure incubated in what used to be his mother’s haberdashery, that of the fetishist who secretly dresses in women’s lingerie. An incident will be enough, together with one night in jail among pimps and prostitutes, for Francho to set himself a mission and discover things about himself that he was unaware of. Meanwhile, his best friend, the owner of the café, long divorced, has a crush on Hortensia and tries by all means to become something more than a confidant.