Three stories of sordid and animalistic human behavior taking place under the gaze of spectators.

The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...

Unable to fly the nest due to the economic crisis that grips Spain, a penniless, young couple have trouble consummating their fledgling relationship in their parents' homes. As they become increasingly desperate to make love, they are forced to look to popular public hot spots commonly used for sex among young people, known by the locals as "picaderos". However, things are never as easy as they seem, and their relationship is quickly tested as they try to break free from the shackles of a crumbling economy. "Picadero" depicts the quiet humiliations of the economic crisis through a simple narrative that unfolds through tableaus of observational dead-pan humour.