Eye for an Eye

Eye for an Eye is a 2019 drama-thriller film directed by Paco Plaza, written by Juan Galiñanes and Jorge Guerricaechevarría and starring Luis Tosar, Xan Cejudo, Ismael Martínez, Enric Auquer and María Vázquez. Plot The film opens with Kike (Enric Auquer) on a fishing platform. We see a man with his hands chained together thrown in a large underwater cage. In prison, semi-retired drug lord Antonio Padín (Xan Cejudo) is given a series of tests, showing that his mobility is limited, and decreasing due to an unnamed condition. Padín is released from prison due to his medical state, and picked up by one of his children, Toño (Ismael Martínez) who says he is here to take him home. Kike calls to ask Padín to do with the man they've captured and are torturing. Padín tells him to break his legs before informing Toño that he doesn't want to come home and is instead going to a nursing home "because I fucking feel like it". Cut to Mario (Luis Tosar) and Julia (María Vázquez) at a class for pregnant couples. After the class ends she drops him at his work; he is head nurse at an assisted living facility. He is shown to be good at his job, able to talk a sullen patient into eating his dinner, though the method he uses (promising the man smokes before saying he won't remember the promise) maybe suspect. Another staff member, Ana (María Luisa Mayol) informs Mario that Padín will be coming to stay there. Mario recognizes the name, and that Padín is/was a drug lord. Padín argues with Kike and Toño about dealings with the Chinese and Colombians. Kike is shown to have little respect for Padín, who in turn has no patience for his immaturity. Mario runs Padín through some simple hand stretches to improve his mobility, seeming to earn a begrudging trust from the older man. Toño tells Padín that they're going ahead "with or without you" as Kike threatens Mario with violence if Mario does anything to harm Padín. A clearly shaken Mario retreats to the bathroom and stares at himself in the mirror. Back at home a news report about Padín affects him strongly but he hides this from Julia, his wife.