The Fantastic Golem Affairs

Two male friends play a guess-the-movie game on a rooftop. After guessing The Shining and Alive, the third round ends with one friend stripping, mimicking a monkey, and leaping off the edge, shattering into pieces on a car beneath. The survivor, Juan, watches the catastrophic accident unfold.

The surviving friend attends David's funeral alongside David's father, Toni, and Clara. The event marks the community's attempt to seek closure after an inexplicable accident.

Left alone after the ceremony, Juan receives the bill for the funerary services. The moment underscores the cold, bureaucratic handling of personal tragedy.

Juan recounts the rooftop incident to a pair of police agents, detailing the sequence of events that led to David's shattering. His testimony marks the beginning of formal scrutiny surrounding the accident.

Back home, Juan posts on social media asking if anyone else has witnessed something like a best friend's shattering. The online search for others' experiences broadens the narrative's eerie implications.

The next morning, an insurance worker informs Juan that he is responsible for damage to a vehicle that David allegedly crashed onto. The confrontation shifts the story toward liability and the mystery surrounding the golem-like events.

An online reply from Maria Pons confirms she has also experienced a shattering event. Her comment links Juan's situation to a broader, uncanny pattern.

Juan visits David's friend Filtro and, after a tense moment, learns that every possession of David is registered in Juan's name. The revelation binds Juan personally to David's life and complicates ideas of inheritance and guilt.

Juan's dad and Clara visit the DEP offices with other funeral attendees and are told that the death algorithm is broken, seemingly forcing the same fate upon everyone via piano crushing. The explanation exposes a chilling bureaucratic system behind the personal tragedies.

During conversations about David and the future, Juan's father reveals he commissioned David as a golem for Juan when he was a child, and hints that tradition may require Juan to kill him. The revelation deepens the conflict between family, power, and control.

Juan dates Maria; on their second date, Maria begins to share more about her shattered stepfather, and she dies by piano crushing. The event intensifies the mystery and incapacitates any potential trust between the pair.

Two police agents, Carlos and Roger, assault Juan's apartment; Juan hits Roger, who immediately shatters into pieces. The violent act demonstrates the bizarre, lethal consequences rippling through this world.

Juan takes the unconscious Carlos to Golem Solutions S.L. in Madrid, where a company official reveals that their business is making companion golems and that David was a golem commissioned by Juan's father. The official then dies by piano crushing, underscoring the lethal reach of the scheme.

Juan and Clara, aligned through business and legal ties, discuss splitting David's inheritance and realigning ownership between DEP and Golem Solutions. The conversations blur lines between loyalty, ambition, and revenge as new alliances form.

During a meeting with new versions of David and Clara at DEP, Juan's father dies on a train to Zaragoza by throat slicing. The death triggers the subsequent gathering at Toni's funeral, marking a somber turn in the saga.