Aspiring actor Víctor Ventura (Javier Bardem) for financial reasons works for a phone-sex company, thrilling the men and women of Madrid with his repertoire of exciting sex conversations. Auditioning for acting roles is more humiliating than being paid to talk dirty to strangers, and the phone job is actually a more interesting professional challenge. The film mixes soft-core seduction with pratfalls. For example, there is a zipper mishap to interrupt a strained heavy-breathing episode. Events escalate once Victor, who took the phone sex job without expecting to meet Ms. Right, finds himself falling for Amanda (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón), who is one of his clients. She says that her husband Bill Ricardo (Josep Maria Flotas), a homosexual who is one of his best clients, has also had phone-sex with Victor, which leads to more complications.
One of the film's funny scenes has Victor being told by his agent Angela (Maria Barranco) that he looks too American to land a role in a big American movie. To compensate for this, he turns up with open shirt and slicked-back hair, smoldering dramatically as he kisses the hand of an American talent agent. Victor encounters a bratty American filmmaker whose combination of ignorance and arrogance makes him an easy target. Later Victor launches into a raging diatribe in a restaurant when the guy orders Coca-Cola, and ends up impressing everyone with a show of his acting talent. The film adds transvestite waiters to this scene, sets some of its action in a phone sex disco and lets Amanda appear in blond, red and dark wigs at different times. Most of the characters are play-acting, which gives the movie a chance to satirize show business and artificiality. Although the comic possibilities of phone sex have been exhausted, this farce gives this worn out topic a go. Written by Juan Luis Iborra and Manuel Gómez Pereira, who also directed. The English title is "Mouth to Mouth".
