Something Is About To Happen

After winning the top prize at the Cannes Critics’ Week in 2012 with "Aquí y Allá" and the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirits with "Life and Nothing More" in 2018, director Antonio Méndez Esparza comes back with SOMETHING IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN, a low key thriller with surreal black comedic touches.

Lucia lives an uneventful life as an IT specialist in Madrid. When the company goes bankrupt due to embezzlement, she decides to make a radical change in her life and become a taxi driver. In the taxi, she meets a series of colorful people, including Roberta, a theatre producer with whom she forms a great friendship, and Ricardo, a journalist who hits on her at the slightest opportunity. Yet, Lucía secretly hopes that, one day, Braulio, an actor with whom she had a fleeting fling and to whom she owes her obsession with the Turandot aria “Nessun Dorma”, will jump in her taxi and finally become her prince charming. But reality can be stubborn and people might not really be who they seem to be...