It is from here that the action flashes back to the same city two decades earlier, when the lives of both men, then in their 20s, were markedly different. In one, the reunited lovers, Ocho (Juan Barberini) and Javi (Ramón Pujol), share a post-coital meal of wine and cheese with Barcelona spread out beneath them in the dusk. The setting seems appropriate given several crucial scenes in the movie take place on terraces or balconies. He is speaking from the terrace of his house in New York City, fighting to make himself heard over shrieking sirens.
