Luis Mesonero

Carlos and Toñi live in a tiny apartment in a marginal neighborhood. They have not been able to pay their rent for months, the power is cut off quite often and they survive by collecting scrap metal. Now the day has come when Henrik and Jens, two Danish tourists willing to spend a day with a poor family, come to meet them.

An enigmatic tale of four people whose lives are intertwined by destiny are subject to the laws of fate. They discover that luck is something they cannot afford to be without as they gamble with the highest stakes possible in a deadly game from which only one of them will emerge intact.

A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves.

A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots".