When they return home, they discover their house has been robbed. Raquel learns their land title is missing but suspects Tirso mortgaged it to finance his gambling addiction. Tirso scolds Jennifer, a nurse, for going to the States and getting married right away so she’s not able to help their family. You’d wonder, though, why Tirso is requiring her to help them when they’re pretty well off and his two other kids are all grownups. Julia and Edgar also have a skirmish after Edgar borrowed Julia’s laptop and it got stolen. The next day, they attend Christmas Day mass and take communion from Tirso who’s a lay minister. Nothing much happens as the film is presented in real time, which can be utterly tedious. What the film really attacks is the shallow kind of spirituality most people have. During the procession, a man with a scar rebuffs his estranged brother’s efforts to reconcile with him. Two women gossip about other people.
Edgar turns out to be a closet queen and leaves the procession for a while to meet with his male lover. On Christmas Day, the man who robbed their home is also seen hearing mass wearing the Edgar’s jacket that he stole the previous night and even gives a generous present in cash to his goddaughter. It’s hard to be involved in the film as we know very little about the characters and we can’t really sympathize with them.
