Manuel is a Spanish government official who has been enjoying success and a certain amount of corrupt earnings out of his position for over a decade. But when anti-corruption forces start looking investigating, he finds his co-conspirators start pointing the blame at him, and the only way he can defend himself is to blow the conspiracy wide open.
This is okay without being entirely satisfactory – I do feel like some of the details get a little lost (and this may be a cultural thing – I’m sure this is based on recent Spanish history and the details would be more immediately obvious to a Spanish audience, but as it’s laid out here it’s a very quick tumult of ledgers and bank accounts that don’t entirely make anything clear beyond “something dodgy’s going on”). But once the action starts as Manuel starts to try to manoeuvre his way out of his obvious fate, it becomes reasonably appealing. Manuel never quite becomes a compelling lead – he’s a bit too doggedly dull for that, without much of a personality – never the less there are a few reasonably tense moments. But in the end I felt distinctly unengaged.
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