It is a biopic of the Catalan poet Jaime Gil de Biedma, based on a biography written by Miguel Dalmau.

[2] In 1959, Jaime Gil de Biedma, a wealthy poet from Barcelona, visits Manila on business trip as the director of the Philippine Tobacco Company.

Back in Barcelona, the Spanish police interrogate Jaime about his subversive friends who still dream of regime change in Spain.

He visits his friend, editor Carlos Barral, and meets Juan Marsé, a young writer about to publish his first novel.

Describing himself as "a Sunday poet with a Monday conscience", Jaime works for his family's company on weekdays and lives a bohemian lifestyle on weekends.

By the mid 1960s, Jaime's favorite spot is the Bocaccio nightclub, where he meets the sexy and enigmatic Bel, a divorced woman with two kids.

On his return, Jaime meets Toni, a young photography assistant of humble background, and they begin a relationship.

His friends, knowing that Jaime is dying, organize a poetry recital at Madrid's famous Students Residence, which turns into a public celebration of the poet.

In the hotel room, he can only passively watch the young naked man dance to The Pet Shop Boys' song Always on My Mind.

The film caused a stir in Spain, with the real-life Juan Marse, now a revered novelist, expressing his strong indignation in the national press.

He referred to The Consul of Sodom as "grotesque, ridiculous, phony, absurd, dirty, pedantic, directed by an incompetent and ignorant fool, badly acted, with deplorable dialogue.