The Motive (El autor) (2017)

Álvaro is a poor man trapped by his obsession: to write 'high literature'. He attends the typical writing courses and workshops provided by any non-talented 'guru'. But, actually, he has no talent. Maybe his wife isn't talented either, but she has just written a best-seller. The divorce is inevitable. In his new life, after moving alone to a small flat, he writes for the first time about real characters: his own neighbors. His writing teacher encourages him because for the first time the description of his characters is real, but he also warns him about the need of conflict: without conflict there's no story, no action, no life. Álvaro, obsessed with this idea, starts provoking these conflicts. It doesn't matter if he has to fuck the doorwoman, make his immigrant neighbor become unemployed, manipulate or deceive a lonely old man. Planning all the conspiracy for a possible murder doesn't let him see that, in fact, he is the real victim.