High brilliantly modernizes the Spanish comedic tradition, one that from El Quijote on has always emerged from pain and misery.
Can the most successful comedian in the country wind up crying in a ditch? Can his life be ruined in just one week? Emilio Escribano is the comedian of the moment. Every bit of nonsense he posts on Instagram receives tens of thousands of likes. He grew up marginalized in a village in Cuenca, but now he’s a celebrity who wears shorts and Hawaiian shirts around Madrid. His cousin is his manager, as well as the reminder of the kind of kid he used to be.
He has been with the same girlfriend since he was 16, but he could fall for a very modern journalist who has a tattoo that reads “Let life live you.”
Within the course of the next week, he could lose his papers, his direction, and all of his previous life.
