In the beginning, we meet Adri. He is a confident and successful journalist from an
entertainment magazine. He and his friends, Mark and Laura, are hanging out at a pub.
Adri talks on and on about achieving your dreams as long as you believe. His friends
criticize him for saying that, even though he hasn’t achieved his own dreams. Yes,
he’s successful, but he writes meaningless and often degrading articles. Adri has the
skill and means to write a genuine journalistic article, but he hasn’t taken the leap. Instead,
the magazine he works for replies on click-bait titles that will get millions of clicks.
His friend brings up one of his articles on picking up girls. Adri tells him that it works
one hundred percent of the time. His friends don’t believe so they make a bet on whether
or not he can get a girl with that line. Adri goes in with confidence, but before he could
make his move, a woman bumps into him. Carla, the woman who bumped into him, hits
on him. Adri admits to her that he is trying to win a bet with his friends, and Carla says
that she is doing the exact same thing. She convinces him to have a drink with her, so
they head to the bar. Though the bar is busy, and Carla is impatient. She tells him that
she’d like to go somewhere else. Adri asks why they can’t stay for a while, then Carla
tells Adri her real intentions. She continues to say that getting to know someone ruins
relationships; she’s looking for a one-night stand, no getting to know each other, and
no strings attached. Even though they’re complete strangers, this entices Adri, and
they ride off in her motorcycle to a hotel. Carla speeds down the street, scaring Adri
a bit with her crazy and unpredictable driving. They arrive at a gorgeous five-star hotel.
Carla is about to check into a room, when she spots a sign for a wedding reception that’s
going on right now. She gets Adri and her to crash it. They con their way into the wedding
by saying that she’s the bride’s cousin, which turns out to be unbelievable, but they
get in anyway. Grabbing drinks and food, they sit down with the other wedding guest. When
the best man makes his speech to the newlyweds, Carla is unimpressed with his short and lacking
heartfulness, so she improvises a speech of her own to the newlyweds, touching Adri with
her words. After that, they get drunk and party with the wedding guests.
Carla steals the wedding suite key card, and the two of them head up there. They get intimate
and finally introduce themselves to each other. The two of them are lying in bed chatting,
when Carla checks the time. She panics and says she doesn’t have much time, so she
has to go now. When Carla and Adri are getting ready to leave, the newlyweds make their way
into their suite, catching Carla and Adri red-handed. The two run away, Carla escaping
on her motorcycle. She accidentally drops her jacket. Adri picks it up and runs away
as the hotel staff chase him. The next day, Adri is on a call with Laura.
Laura is an actress and is about to head in for an audition. He talks to her about the
most amazing night he’s ever had, last night with Carla. He thinks it’s too bad he doesn’t
have her number, but doesn’t care because if they never meet again, it will always be
the best night of their lives. Laura is confused about how this is a good thing, but they hang
up the phone as Adri arrives at his work. His boss is pressing his staff for good articles
that will get a million clicks. His co-worker, Ana, pitches an idea, “How to know you’re
in love”. Their boss likes it, but the title needs re-working. Adri revives the title on
the spot, and the boss decides that all the credit for this article will go to Adri. Their
boss asks Ana to read out the points in Adri’s article. Ana is upset that he’s going to
get all the credit, but she reads out the points. Adri is distracted by the thought
of Carla, and his mind wanders off. After work, he is checking Carla’s jacket
for any kind of clue to who she is. He spends the next few days trying to find Carla on
the internet and social media, but he has no luck. He is talking with his friends about
how he can’t find a single trace of her and all he knows is that her name is Carla.
Laura and Mark are giddy with excitement as they’ve never seen Adri in love before,
but Adri doesn’t admit that he’s in love. Adri is about to give up on his search when
Laura suggests looking in Carla’s jacket. Adri says that he’s looked in her jacket
before, but there isn’t anything. Laura goes to the jacket and asks if he’s looked
in the inner pocket. Adri didn’t realize there was an inner pocket, and she desperately
looks in it, finding a small crumpled up piece of paper. Adri reads it and finds out it’s
a prescription written for Carla. It lists her full name and address.
Adri goes to the address and finds that Carla is living in a mental hospital. He can’t
visit because his name is not on the visitor’s list. He sees Carla through open doors but
gets kicked out of the hospital before he can talk to her. Since he can’t visit, then
he will admit himself into the hospital to see Carla. So, he devises a scheme.
Adri and Laura go to a doctor, an old friend of Laura’s. He gets the doctor to sign a
document that will help Adri be admitted to the mental hospital. Suddenly Adri gets a
call from his boss, wondering where Adri is. Adri tells him that he’s planning to write
an article on a mental hospital, and he’s going to check it out right now.
Laura then drives Adri to the hospital. Him and Laura are sitting in the car as Adri relays
his plan. His plan is to go in, talk to Carla, get her number, and leave. Laura wishes him
good luck and lets him go in. Adri is in the director’s office, where
she is filling out forms and determining whether or not he should be admitted to the hospital.
She asks his symptoms, and he tells her that he has all of them, convincing the director
to admit him immediately. She shows Adri to his room, where he meets his schizophrenic
roommate, Saúl. Saúl shows Adri around, and Adri asks if he knows Carla. Saúl tells
him that she’s usually in the painting room, and Adri heads there to meet her.
Carla doesn’t seem happy to see him. She tells him that the girl he fell for is not
her, that after one night, he couldn’t possibly know who she is. She asks him to leave. Adri
storms off, upset that Carla wouldn’t even give him a chance. As he tries to leave, the
staff stop him. He tries to leave out the window, but all of the windows are locked.
The staff explain to him that they can’t allow him to leave until he’s properly released
from the hospital. Adri goes to talk to the director, and she
explains to him that he’s signed off his guardianship to them, so the hospital is the
only one that can release him. Once he’s deemed ready to leave, then the director will
allow for his release. Adri tries to explain that he made up his mental illness, but the
staff laugh it off because they’ve heard that too many times from previous patients.
The director tells him that if he wants to be released, then he has to improve his behavior
and interact with the patients. In this hospital, the patients evaluate other patients. Adri
tells them that he’s a journalist, that he’s in here to write an article about this
place. Adri says to call his work, they will explain everything. The director calls Adri’s
work and his co-worker, Ana, picks up the phone. When Ana realizes that Adri is stuck
at the mental hospital, she decides to take a little revenge on him for stealing her article.
Ana claims she doesn’t know Adri, and that no one there by that name who works there.
Now Adri has to get out of the hospital the same way all the other patients have to.
Adri is sulking in his bed, while Saúl is reading a book. Saúl tells him that he knows
Adri thinks they’re all deranged, but Saúl asks him what’s wrong anyway. Adri tells
him that he wants to get out of this hospital right now. Saúl suddenly has an idea. He
shows Adri the only window with no lock on it, but it’s three stories high. Saúl says
that only one person who made this jump was a legend named Pablo the Grasshopper, who
broke both his legs after the fall. Adri says he’s going to jump. If he’s lucky, he’ll
land in the garbage. Saúl says that Pablo had the same idea but ended up breaking both
his legs anyway. Adri is about to jump, but he chickens out. Then Adri remembers he can
make a phone call. He calls in his friend Laura to pretend to
be his doctor. Laura and the director have a quick chat, but she’s immediately caught.
Before Laura leaves, she meets Adri at the window to tell him that the plan failed and
that his boss called. If he doesn’t get his article in today, he will be fired. Adri
completely forgot about the article, so he gets Laura to type it down on her phone while
Adri writes it on the spot. He writes a demeaning article about the hospital to submit to his
boss. Adri spends the day sulking and walking around
the institution. Carla is ignoring him whenever she sees him. He goes outside and finds cameras
in all directions, wherever he looks. When it’s time for all the patients to take their
medicine, Adri refuses to take them as he’s not mentally ill, which ends in an outburst
that makes him look crazy and in denial. His use of the word “crazy” sounds belittling
and offends the staff and patients. Adri decides to play along as there is no
other way out of the hospital. He silently sits in the living room with the other patients,
takes his medicine when he has to, and looks around for things to do. Not wanting to do
anything, he sits on the stairs, waiting for time to pass. Saúl approaches him and tells
him that the first thing Adri must do is get along with the other patients. They are the
ones evaluating him, so he’s got to get on their good side. Adri questions why Saúl
is so willing to help him. Saúl says that it’s simply nice helping someone and that
he has an amazing plan. Adri asks Saúl what his plan is. Saúl says that the first step
is to attend all the activities held in the center. There is one tonight and Saúl says
that Adri is coming with him. He hands Adri a small capsule and leaves. Adri looks at
the contents, finding various pills. Later that night, Saúl takes Adri to the
kitchen. But he first warns him that he’s got to be careful, that they can smell fear.
Saúl and Adri head inside to see that the patients are gathered in the kitchen to secretly
play poker, gambling with their pills and personal items as chips. When Carla sees Adri,
she asks him to leave, but Adri shows them all the different drugs he’s got in the
capsule that Saúl handed to him earlier. The other patients are persuaded by the drugs
and let him play. Adri gets to know the patients a little bit before they begin: Victor, who
has OCD, Tina, who’s delusional and thinks she’s a princess, and Marta, who has Tourette’s.
While Victor goes to the bathroom, the patients chat and Adri learns that Marta has a crush
on Victor, but it’s hard for her to speak to him with her tics. Whenever she tries to
talk to Victor, she only spews out embarrassing things. Adri says that if she likes him, then
she should simply tell him. The patients go quiet as it’s not as easy as it seems. Adri
says he’s going to help Marta get Victor. The next morning, Adri is in the cafeteria
having breakfast. Saúl sits down with Adri and tells him he thinks helping Marta is impossible.
Adri says that Saúl would do the same for him, but Saúl says that he is only helping
Adri so he can do something for him in return. Saúl hands Adri a doctor’s coat under the
table, and they hurry off into the hallway to put the coats on. When the front doors
open, we see Saúl’s young daughter and his ex-wife coming to visit. Saúl pretends
to be a doctor at this hospital when his daughter comes to visit. He is pretending to be a doctor
that diagnoses and cures influenza rather than mental illness. His ex’s new partner
says that they’re only staying for ten minutes and heads outside to wait for them. He seems
uninterested in letting his stepdaughter see her sick father. Adri watches as Saúl happily
takes his daughter outside to play a short game of tag.
Adri then overhears Carla speaking with her parents. Her father is upset that she bought
a motorcycle with his credit card. Her mother tells him that the doctors said it was another
episode. Carla is upset and in tears, apologizing to her father that he has a crazy daughter
like her. Her parents are forgiving, but they do wish that their daughter will get better
soon. Her mother suggests trying some methods to make herself happy. She gives the example
that she watches funny movies to make herself smile. This upsets Carla; she says it’s
not that simple to cure depression. Carla wants to go back to her room, but her parents
want her to stay for a while longer as they just got there. Adri steps in, pretending
to be a doctor and making up an excuse to get her out of there. He says that it’s
time for her to take her medicine. The parents agree and lets her go. Carla doesn’t admit
that she’s grateful for his rescue and proceeds to head up to her room.
Saúl comes back inside after seeing his daughter. Adri asks why he has to pretend that he’s
a doctor. Saúl explains that his ex’s current husband doesn’t think it’s good for a
young girl like Saúl’s daughter to see that her father is sick.
Later, Marta and Adri are in the painting room. She shows her his plan for her to get
Victor. He hands her a draft of a script he wrote for Marta to practice. He then gets
Marta to practice over and over again, starting over when her tics get in the way. Carla sees
that Adri is genuinely trying to help Marta, and stays a while to watch from a distance,
before heading downstairs. It's the evening, and Marta and Adri were
practicing the lines the whole time. When they take a short break, Adri asks why she’s
admitted to the hospital. He saw an article that people with Tourette’s can live normal
lives. Marta explains that her tics has made it hard for her socially. She spent three
months in bed and found that she was suddenly afraid to go outside, so she was diagnosed
with depression and came to this hospital. The next day, it’s raining and mostly everyone
is staying inside. Today’s the day that Marta is supposed to confess to Victor, but
she wants to chicken out. Adri convinces Marta to go outside to see Victor. Marta goes out
to the gazebo where Victor and some other patients are hanging out and asks them all
to leave, except for Victor. Marta then tries to say the pick-up line that Adri taught her,
but fails to do it without her tics getting in the way. She becomes embarrassed and leaves
Victor, who wants to hear her out. Marta goes inside, and Adri tries to get her to go back
out there. Carla steps in and gives her a pep talk. Marta is encouraged by Carla’s
pep talk and heads back out to see Victor again. She confesses to him, and Victor returns
her feelings. They share a kiss while Adri and the other patients watch excitedly. Carla
is impressed with the results and asks Adri out tonight.
Adri heads back up to his room to see Saúl crying. Saúl says that his ex-wife won’t
let him see his daughter anymore because it’s dangerous. Saúl thinks that this was his
ex’s husband’s idea. He tells Adri that he’d like to be alone in the room for a
while. It’s stopped raining. Adri and Carla are
chatting on a bench in the courtyard. They agree that what happened to Saúl was not
fair; he’s a good guy. Adri then asks why Carla is in this hospital. She tells him that
she has type 1 bipolar disorder. Her episodes come and go. Some episodes, she’s depressed,
and some episodes, she’s manic. She explains that during her manic episodes, she tends
to act without thinking about the consequences. The two talk about the amazing night they
had, but Carla doesn’t want it to go further. She tells him that she doesn’t know what
it’s like to be with someone who can’t control their feelings.
Later that evening, Adri comes back to his room, but it’s a mess. Book and papers thrown
all over the place and Saúl is gone. Adri panics and checks the windows without a lock.
It’s wide open, and it looks like Saúl has successfully jumped and landed in the
garbage. He hurries down to Carla to ask how she escaped that night. They head downstairs
to make sure the security guard is asleep, then they head out the back door, which is
unlocked and leads to the parking lot. She uses a key that she stole from a security
guard to borrow a car and make their great escape. Carla speeds down the road, looking
for Saúl. They find him on the street, limping and covered in cuts and scrapes.
Adri tries to talk to him, but all Saúl can think about is going to see his daughter.
Carla manages to calm him down and persuade him to not do anything that would land him
in prison. Adri has an idea. They take Saúl to his ex’s house, Adri leaves Saúl’s
daughter’s drawing at the front door. Then Adri, Carla, and Saúl wreck the ex’s husband’s
car, though after wrecking the car, they aren’t entirely sure that it was his car. The car
alarm goes off and the neighborhood’s lights turn on, so they run away. Saúl’s ex steps
outside to see what’s happening and finds her daughter’s drawing on the ground. She
heads back inside with a smile on her face. They drive back to the hospital and Saúl
is asleep in the backseat. Carla tells Adri that she’s glad he snuck into the hospital.
Adri gets the front gate open and Carla drives in. Adri takes a moment to realize that he’s
out on the street. This could be his time to escape. But he decides to head back inside
to be with Carla. Carla takes Adri to the roof. It’s a place
she likes to go when she wants to be alone. The two bond over a conversation. Carla asks
if Adri really meant it, when he said that she’ll get better, and Adri says that she
will. Carla blames him for showing her a love that she can’t have, but Adri argues that
she can have it; she’s just scared. He tells her that he doesn’t agree with what she
said the first night they met. He doesn’t think getting to know someone ruins relationships.
The more he got to know Carla, the more he liked her. Carla is overcome with his romantic
gesture, and they share a passionate kiss as the sun rises.
Adri and Carla start dating. The days go by as they keep each other company. Adri is interacting
with the other patients by joining the group in the living room. One night, the patients
are all playing poker, but Carla isn’t there. Adri is worried and goes to find her acting
erratically on the ledge of the roof. Adri finds out she hasn’t been taking her meds.
He manages to drag her off the roof and she hits her head. In the infirmary, he tells
the staff that she’s been off her meds. When Carla wakes up, she finds that she’s
on a drip. Feeling betrayed by Adri, she tells him she never wants to see him again.
At the cafeteria, Adri goes to sit with his friends, but they don’t let him. They found
Adri’s article which ridiculed the hospital and its patients. The director sees the article
and releases him from the hospital. She tells Adri that her goal is to help the patients
learn how to live with their disorders, not be cured of them.
As Adri leaves the hospital, he sees Saúl reunited with his daughter. His ex-wife doesn’t
care what her husband says; she thinks it’s good for her daughter to know who her father
is. Saúl spots Adri and waves him over to introduce him to his family. He sees Adri
as his good friend and seems to have already forgiven him.
Adri goes back to work and writes an article on his experience, telling the truth about
why he admitted himself in the mental hospital, and he declares his love for Carla. Adri’s
friends at the hospital read the article and are all impressed with his guts, except for
Carla. She’s still upset with him and decides to tell him off, convincing all her friends
to come with her. They all sneak out of the hospital, and escape in a van, almost getting
caught. The director and staff get in a car to chase after them.
Adri is at work and his boss praises him for his most successful article yet. Meanwhile,
the hospital staff chase after the van of patients. Saúl throws items out the back
of the van at the hospital staff’s car, obstructing their view, but the chase continues.
Eventually, Saúl throws a sheet over the car window, stopping the staff from pursuing
them further. The patients storm into Adri’s workplace and Adri is surprised to see them.
Carla confronts him. She criticizes him for writing in his article that they cannot be
together. Adri explains it’s because she told him she never wanted to see him again.
She argues that she has Bipolar and changes her mind uncontrollably, but it doesn’t
give him an excuse to stop trying. Adri tells her that he wants to be with her and that
he loves her. He doesn’t care if it won’t be easy. There is nothing he’d change about
her. They share a kiss, and everyone in the room cheers.
Adri and Carla share another wild night together before Adri takes her back to the hospital.
Carla finally gives him her number, the one thing that he admitted himself into the mental
hospital for. Carla returns to the hospital with tears in her eyes.