The Fantastic Golem Affairs

Two male friends are playing a guess-the-movie game on a rooftop. After guessing two rounds (The Shining and Alive), one of the friends gets naked in the third round, starts mimicking a monkey and falls from the roof, shattering into pieces on a car. The surviving friend attends the funeral of the shattered man (David) alongside his dad and a woman working for him, Clara. After being left alone, the surviving friend is handed the bill for the funerary services. The surviving friend, presented as Juan Martínez, testifies to a couple of police agents about the incident. Back to his bed, Juan asks in social media if someone has experienced something similar to their best friend being shattered into pieces. Next morning, Juan receives an insurance company worker who tells him that he is responsible for the damage to the vehicle David crashed onto. An online post by a woman named Maria Pons answered Juan’s online plea by telling that she has experienced the shattering of someone too. Juan visits David’s friend Filtro. After having a sexual misunderstanding, Filtro angrily tells Juan that every possession of David is now registered to Juan’s name. Juan’s dad and Clara visit the company DEP with other funeral attendees, and they are explained that the death algorithm is broken and now every person is being assigned the same death by piano crushing.

Juan dates Maria, and after Maria tells the story about her stepfather’s shattering hand, they have sex. Juan leaves Maria’s apartment and catches the couple of purported police agents spying on him. Filtro and his lawyer visit Juan to pressure him into changing David’s will to their favour, unsuccessfully. When Maria is about to tell Juan more about her shattered stepfather in their second date, she dies by piano crushing. After the two purported police agents (Carlos and Roger) assault Juan’s apartment, Juan hits Roger, who immediately shatters into pieces. Juan takes the unconscious Carlos to the Golem Solutions S.L headquarters in Madrid, where he is told by a company official (Carlos’ father) that their business is the manufacturing of companion golems, and that David was a golem commissioned by Juan’s father. The company official then dies by piano crushing. Juan meets with Clara, herself involved with the piano-throwing company (DEP), which was efficiently managed by David and which is now in shambles after his death. She asks Juan to talk to his father. Juan’s dad tells Juan that he commissioned David for Juan when Juan was a child because Juan seemed to be a complete duffer. He also tells his son that pursuant to the company tradition, Juan needs to kill him.

Upon getting acquainted with Carlos (and Carlos pulling an unsuccessful sexual advance on Juan), Juan proposes the recreation of David to Clara. Juan and Clara date and have sex. Filtro, his lawyer, Juan, and Clara (now Juan’s lawyer) agree on splitting David’s inheritance. Juan, Clara, and Carlos agree on Juan gifting a majority share of DEP to Clara, on Juan joining Golem Solutions as an associate to Carlos, and Carlos building another David. Upon meeting new David and Clara at the DEP offices and during a business travel by train to Zaragoza, Juan’s dad dies a satisfactory death by throat slicing. Juan, Clara, David, and Carlos meet at the funeral of Juan’s dad (Toni).

Last Updated: August 28, 2025 at 12:52