The Big Family

Carlos Alonso and Mercedes Cebrián are parents of fifteen children of different ages. They all live with the grandfather and depend exclusively on Carlos work (moonlighting rigger) as the sole breadwinner, which puts them in constant financial trouble. They also have the generous support of Juan the godfather, baker by profession. Through various events, we are told of everyday family life: a regular and full-time day of the clan; First communion of two sons; finals of nine of them; holiday on the Costa Dorada (Tarragona), propitious time for the romance of various members of the clan; the loss of Chencho, the baby of the family, in the Plaza Mayor of Madrid and its subsequent recovery. The arrival of their first television serves to announce the arrival of a new child.

Over the years, the life of the disproportionate family of Carlos Alonso has undergone several changes: the birth of little María, the sixteenth child, coincided with the death of the mother, who left behind her an irreparable gap. The grandfather has also died. The pastry godfather has been married, and the boys have been growing rapidly.

The sixteen children of Carlos gather to honor their father for his retirement. The encounter does not give rise to the ghost of the loneliness in which he lives and that he only has the company of the ineffable Godfather.