Menos que cero (1996) – Ernesto Tellería

Synopsis

Zarko (Roman Luknar) is a young illegal Romanian immigrant, lost in Bilbao. He befriends an old retired friend, Goyo (Txema Blasco), who is reluctant to leave his house, in a rundown industrial area coveted by unscrupulous builders. Salva (José M. Cervino), one of the partners in the urban operation, with the promise of getting him a valid passport, gives Zarko a job: a humiliating job in the restaurant of his partner Maite (Carmen Elías), collaborating in dirty maneuvers of extortion aimed at collecting an old debt. One night Zarko writes a sentence on a billboard of a horrible bus stop when Inés, a young photographer, appears. Encouraged by her friend (Icíar Bollaín), she returns to the bus stop and completes the sentence to get a date in a bar in Bilbao. The relationship that arises between them will mean the only possibility for him to get out of the criminal environment to which he is doomed. Inés will offer him her friendship and perhaps even her love.

(SOURCE: Filmaffinity)