What's your bet, Marie?
Sole, Marie and Marta are three nearly twenty year old
girls that share an apartment in the pre-Olympic city
of Barcelona. The first girl, Sole (BLANCA PAMPOLS), is
a brillant economics student that combines naivety and
bashfulness with a slightly overweight condition. She
likes comfortable and informal clothes and, above all,
not to be treated like a child. Marie (MERCE LLEIXA),
on the other hand, is a wide-awake, flexible, feline,
aggressive, tender girl that depends on the opportunity,
but is never lacking opportunities. She is the cashier
at an American-style hamburger place where she earns just
enough to pay for her part of the rent, fill the tank
of her Vespino and buy an occasional pair of elastic pants
designed by a schizophrenic. Her greatest characteristic
is her wild black hair and wicked eyes that give her a
look of the femme fatale that she actually isn't: under
the shallow of aggressiveness there is a person full of
tenderness. And last but not least, Marta (NURIA HOSTA)
is a very attractive, independent and dynamic blond with
iniciative and an urge to impruve, all of which are very
useful qualities if, as in her case, one has reached the
position of sales manager of a chain of jewellery stores
at scarcely twenty four. As earning money does not imply
any special effort for her, what really stimulates her
is proving to herself and others that she is a natural
winner. And to do this, she doesn't hesitate to put herself
to the test at the slightest opportunity. And if the opportunity
doesn't arise, she invents it.
Our story commences one summer morning when the three
girls discover, only too late, that the frozen patties
must be fried in oil. While cleaning the kitchen, Sole
complains about the complexity of the ritual of finding
a mate: remove the hair from ones legs every week, adopt
sexy postures at the serious risk of straining your spinal
column, stuffing yourself with gin-tonics, etc. Keeping
in mind that the desire to pick someone up consists "only
of a state of mind that predisposes one to accept a member
of the opposite sex", Sole asks herself, "Why wait until
the weekend to go to a disco and get involved with the
first man that asks you your name?". Marta takes advantage
of this verbal thought of her housemate to clarify the
fact that she is a woman of action. The only thing that
occurs to her is to propose a game: avoid all the preambles
to the manhunt and take a short cut in the pursuit of
a mate; in other words, have an affair with the first
man that asks you your name. Sole takes her on without
hesitation, but that is hardly surprising since the poor
girl stands out, leaving her intelligence aside, for the
lack of interest she arouses in the opposite sex. On the
other hand, Marie, the man-eater of the group, absolutely
refuses to take part in this game from the beginning,
but winds up accepting.
And this is how our story begins...