THE FRIEND ZONE / Pagafantas, Festival de Malaga 2009

Pagafantas (from Latin pag-fantas paying fantas) - adjective describing the male subject who is constantly ridiculed because he believes he is having a relationship with a female subject who only considers him a friend and uses him to pay the drinks.
Chema is not aware of this but he is about to become the biggest Pagafantas in history. In fact, he is turning his life upside down in the hope that for once somebody will pay the Fantas for him. He has just broken up with Elisa, his girlfriend of six years and has gone back to his mother's. He intends to do everything he has not been able to do in six years. But everything changes on the night he meets Claudia, a wannabe Argentinean hairdresser who has just arrived in Spain. She is gorgeous and fun. And the best part is that she knows nobody in Spain.

Ella es peluquera con necesidad de practicar. Él tiene pelo y ganas de agradarla. El resultado es un montón de peinados absurdos que el chico soporta porque está pillado con la chica. Pero ella tiene sentimientos diferentes. Piensa que hay dos tipos de chicos: a los que deseas y los que te pagan las fantas. Pagafantas es una comedia sobre un chico que ha escuchado muchas veces "te quiero" pero siempre acompañado de "como amigo". Cree que si tiene paciencia, ella se dará cuenta de que están hechos el uno para el otro. Y en eso está, esperando agazapado y armado de mucha paciencia. La cuestión es que todo el mundo sabe que la paciencia tiene un límite.