One early morning when he is driving his truck to his butcher’s shop, he sees a young man assaulting a woman.

Marina, nicknamed One-Eye (for she lost one eye in a childhood accident), tells Rafael how she and Daniel grew up together in a hostile environment in an orphanage, where she was left abandoned by her father.

Rafael treats the troubled Marina with kindness and she responds by proving that there is more than one way to be a man and to experience love.

He initially wants them to leave but finally comes to accept an uncommon arrangement and the three of them remain together with their daughter forming an uneasy family.

Daniel, who passes as Marina’s brother, helps Rafael in the Butcher’s shop and settles into a family life for a while.

He was raped in prison and is now seriously ill. Daniel's condition is so bad that he is released from jail to spend his remaining days at home.

[1] Lucky Star is a dramatic intimist film about love, abandonment, solitude and ultimate connection.

It won over Secretos del corazón, a film that was ultimately Spain's candidate to the Oscar where it was among that year's nominees.

Ricardo Franco, the director, left his next film unfinished, dying of a heart attack only one year after the release of Lucky Star, his best regarded work.

Although Antonio Resines won the best actor award, many found Jordi Mollá's performance in the film more compelling.

Some critics found the story too grim, the euthanasia issue controversial, and the erotic scenes out of place in a film characterized by its sobriety.