Woman Without Piano

The day starts out like any other for Rosa (Carmen Machi), the wife of a Madrid taxi driver, but as night falls, the constraints of her mundane and unchanging routine begin to chafe. Once her husband is asleep, she dons a somewhat outrageous black wig, picks up her suitcase and steps out into the night with little thought except the overwhelming need to escape from herself. Through Machi's beautifully nuanced performance, we follow Rosa in her night-time wanderings through the streets of Madrid. There she finds companionship in the unlikely form of a Polish immigrant (Jan Budar), who has run afoul of the law.