这是一部半自传体的电影，改编自Arrabal自己的小说BaalBabylon。它讲述的是西班牙内战期间一个小男孩寻找自己被捕的父亲的故事，这个故事非常暴力、残酷和超现实。当小男孩得知是母亲把父亲作为左翼分子出卖后，他开始想象父亲的命运。电影充满怪诞的暴力和性，被认为是前卫派的一个宣言，也因无节制的令人不快的镜头而为人责骂。

Six characters – contemporary archetypes of urban solitude – meet in an old apartment located in the city center of Barcelona. An elderly married couple, her brother and three tenants: a blonde woman who gives French classes, a young security guard, ex-football player and a young, pregnant South American girl. The old man, who was formerly a doorman at the opera and who likes to dress up in women’s clothes, gets them all together and asks them to leave as he is going to die and wants to be alone for the last stage of his life.