What would happen if during the celebrations of a midsummer's
eve an invisible, far from innocent hand, should choose
fourteen people at random and a book called "A midsummer
night's dream" to organise a hilarious romp through a Barcelona
bathed in firelight, and it all turned into a delirious
game of love, passion and jealousy?
What might happen if Marga (Marta Fernández Muro),
a short-sighted, alcoholic film director, were to be left
without a star for her next film, just one week before
the shoot?
And if her lover, Nacho (Àngel Burgos), were
an impotent anthropologist who took advantage of his frequent
trips to South Africa to traffic in diamonds?
And if Baba (Lloll Bertran), a post-modern hairdresser,
should decide to break up with Lluís (Camilo Rodríguez),
a gigolo who works as a cross-dresser, because she's forced
to choose between supporting him or supporting her psychiatrist?
How could we combine these characters with Agustina
(Amparo Moreno), the widowed hat-shop proprietress who
has made insomnia her second job, and who on top of it
all, has a child with a calling, Maria (Blanca Pàmpols),
a biology student, who is about to die of anaemia through
the fault of her stigmata?
And what if to all this we add Mr. Oliveros (José
Maria Cañete), operetta gangster and cabaret owner
and his employee Johnny (Mingo Ràfols), a kind
of chameleonic, multi-faceted imp on sabbatical?
And if we then mix in four lovesick biology students:
Cristina (Mònica López), a sharp-tongued
ecologist; Carme (Maria Lanau), "the biggest tart in the
place"; Xavier (Marc Martínez), an affected yuppy;
and Pere (Santi Ricart), a likeable scoundrel?
Naturally, if a sick mind wanted to instigate a muddle
of such magnitude, the eve of St. John's Day could only
be Tonight or never.
