Quest for Happiness (2014)

Juan is an accountant who has worked at Etichetta Due for the past 10 years, thanks to Daniela, who was his girlfriend at the time and worked as a secretary for Osvaldo, owner of the company. Juan's weak character and naivete have kept him the office laughingstock. His only friend there was Eduardo until the day Juan found him having sex with Daniela, the mother of his two children. Because of this unfortunate incident, Juan moves out to a small apartment and decided not to quit his job--he'd lose his seniority and he has expenses and doesn't have savings, between the rent of his new apartment and financially supporting his kids and his parents. So he convinced himself to keep going to the office every day and accepting that he'd be seeing his ex-wife and ex-friend there all the time, along with his disrespectful co-workers. One afternoon, feeling especially miserable, Juan leaves work and roams the city streets. He's browsing in a bookstore when a particular book attracts his attention: the last copy of "MANUAL TO BE HAPPY: 50 INFALLIBLE RECIPES TO ACHIEVE HAPPINESS." Inside are hundreds of recipes, practical rules, exercises, advice, and guidelines. Juan can't resist the intrigue that reading the book might actually change his reality, so he buys it. Week after week he reads and puts into practice each chapter of the book and watches its chaotic consequences in his life, but he also starts down a self-evaluation path and might even find true love: In his office is a woman who doesn't work there but has a more important place there than even the Company's owner himself. She is Luisa Sanz, a young woman who owns one of the country's most important clothing companies. Osvaldo (the boss) is smitten with Luisa (and deeply in love with her bank account) and wants to make her his wife. Luisa doesn't even notice Juan's existence. She has never looked at him and doesn't even know what position he has in the Company. But little by little, through his successive changes and the situations derived from his clumsiness that often jeopardize the permanence of Luisa as client of the Company, all those details will make her start to notice him--and become interested in him. She finds that he has common sense, he's easygoing, he's honest, and he's kind. In Luisa Juan finds a mirror that shows him a better self-image that gives him self-confidence and encourages him to be a better person; thanks to their love for each other, he is on the path to happiness.