Lady Behind the Mask

The night before a long-planned attack on U.S. soil, members of a terrorist cell kick back at a strip club, reflect on their time in-country, and cross paths with a cross section of Americans.

Ina and Klaus Heller still love each other after ten years of marriage. The ambitious architect and the busy judge lead a family life that is as harmonious as it is turbulent with their two lively children, Lisa and Stefan. However, their love life has suffered a little, and so the two are longingly counting down the hours until their offspring leave for summer camp. Like a newly in love couple, the two want to spend two romantic and passionate weeks together. Friends and acquaintances have their concerns, and Ina and Klaus actually seem to be a little out of practice in bed. Even the relaxed holiday mood doesn't quite set in, and so Klaus' call from his architect's office is quite right: Despite his vacation, he has to take care of an important major order. In order not to disappoint Ina, he pretends that he is only taking her to a luxurious wellness hotel for pleasure. In an adventurous tour de force, Klaus tries to prevent Ina from finding out about his business appointments at the hotel. But chance reveals its secret and Ina is rightly angry. The waves have hardly calmed down when Klaus has every reason to be angry with Ina, since he believes that she spent the night with his best friend and partner Erik. Instead of pure harmony, a storm is brewing and the Hellers are in the middle of the worst marital crisis.

Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy.

The married Belkis comes to visit Bülent one hot night. She tells him the heat makes people greedy and promiscuous.

As fate would have it, complications arise when a romantic affair between a married man and a young lady leads to a murder.

Pepe Rey, Doña Perfecta's nephew, arrives in Orbajosa, a quiet and provincial city, with the task of building a reservoir. However, the presence of Pepe, a man of liberal ideas to whom unfounded revolutionary and even anticlerical intentions are attributed, is not well received in the town. So each of its inhabitants will have a reason not only to hate Pepe, but to want him to get out of there as soon as possible.