Something Is About to Happen finds Antonio Méndez Esparza returning to his native Spain after a career in U.S. indie cinema to bring Juan José Millás’s novel Que Nadie Duerma vividly to life. At its center is Lucía (Malena Alterio), a forty‑year‑old It support worker whose world collapses when corporate fraud costs her job—and, with it, the stability she thought she’d earned. In a restless act of self‑reinvention, she trades cubicles for the driver’s seat of a Madrid taxi, traversing both the city’s neon‑lit boulevards and its quieter, neglected edges.

Alterio’s performance anchors this transformation, shifting from subdued caretaker to audacious night‑owl with just a glance or a tightened jaw. The film weaves dark comedy and social satire into episodic vignettes—passengers become character studies, each ride revealing a facet of urban alienation or defiant joy.

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