It stars Miguel Ángel Solá, Adriana Ozores and Juan Diego Botto alongside Fernando Fernán Gómez, Charo López, Chete Lera and María Galiana.

Arriving to a sleepy provincial city of northern Spain from the Basque Country, a police inspector with a psychologically damaged wife tracks down (with help from the local coroner) a psychotic misogynist killer of female children, who happens to hate his job as a fishmonger and his family altogether as well.

[1][2][3][4] The inspector kindles with Susana Grey, the teacher of a murdered girl, establishing a romantic affair.

[9] Produced by Andrés Santana, other crew members included Gonzalo F. Berridi [ca] (cinematography) and Teresa Font (editing) and Antonio Meliveo (music).

[7] Imanol Uribe said the filming has been very hard for 9-year-old Noelia Ortega, especially in the scenes she shot naked in the river during one of the hardest winters that is remembered in Palencia.