Esteban, an acclaimed and famously exacting film director, casts his estranged daughter in his latest period production, drawing both of them into the fraught, unpredictable chaos of a film set under construction. As Esteban's dissatisfaction with his actors' performances, including during a pivotal group meal scene, triggers escalating tension and conflict, the production becomes a charged reckoning between father and daughter, art and family, blurring the line between professional perfectionism and personal wound, in Rodrigo Sorogoyen's follow-up to The Beasts. A tense, richly acted father-daughter drama that finds real depth in its behind-the-scenes filmmaking chaos, Javier Bardem delivering a magnetic, self-aware performance as a director impossible to please.