一名巴士司机自杀前听从一条妙计：从黑社会借100万美元尽情享受。享乐中他认识了一位墨西哥女招待共欲爱河，于是他重新有了生活下去的勇气，问题是他如何想方设法还清黑社会的欠款？

加夫列尔（费尔南多·瓦尔沃德 Fernando Valverde 饰）和妻子卡门（西尔维娅·蒙特 Silvia Munt 饰）结婚多年，卡门怀孕生下了可爱的小女儿阿米（Susana García Díez 饰），虽然加夫列尔一心希望生下的是男孩，但依旧十分疼爱阿米。之后，卡门又怀孕了，阿米有了一个弟弟。弟弟出生之后，阿米的境遇开始变得艰难，父亲和母亲的注意力大多集中在小儿子身上，这令阿米心中十分不是滋味。最终，阿米犯下了一生难以偿还的过错。　　在冷漠和罪恶感之中，阿米长大成人，可她的家庭却早已经支离破碎。一场意外之中，阿米被人侵犯，父亲亦因此终生将要坐在轮椅之上，母亲精神崩溃，与此同时，阿米发现自己怀孕了。

Malvís (Alfredo Landa) is sick of working like crazy for nothing. He'd rather become a bandit, that's much better, he's gonna be the fearful Fendetestas! He'll spread panic in the woods of his region. But there's a little problem there aren't much people living in his region, everyone knows everyone and everyone is so poor, so is gonna be difficult that someone takes MalvísFendetestas too seriously.　　This is a magic history, so funny, and full of situations that will make you laugh. It's also full of characters that belong to the Spanish idiosyncrasy the strict priest, the Guardia Civil, the old devout women, the village idiot... there's even a lost soul wandering around the woods.　　The great Alfredo Landa heads a cast that gathered together the best two generations of Spanish scene from Fernando Rey to Encarna Paso, from Manuel Alexandre to María Isbert... A cast like that would be just unthinkable nowadays. El Bosque Animado was the first movie of José Luis Cuerda's trilogy of rural comedies (after this one he made the surreal Amanece Que No Es Poco, and Así En El Cielo Como En La Tierra. Those are movies so personal that stress the Spanish culture. The young directors should take note of films like El Bosque Animado, instead of trying to be the new enfant terrible and imitating US worst cinema.