Two couples in love and a postman. An impossible inheritance, a desert island and the formula for eternal youth. Eternal happiness too? Immortal love? It may be, or it may not or it is perhaps the exact opposite. Because everything is possible in “Cuatro corazones con freno y marcha atrás”, one of the funniest and most popular comedies of masterful Enrique Jardiel Poncela.

In “Cuatro corazones con freno y marcha atrás” we find an explosive, theatrical and philosophical text: it contains everything that really matters, love, truth, beauty but also the passing of time, losing hope and death. And above all, life, which in Jardiel’s view is a chaotic nonsensical adventure one must always laugh at, as laughter is a very serious issue.