在这部天堂口剧情片中,故事根据拉斐尔·奇尔维斯的同名小说改编。主角鲁本·伯托姆（乔斯·桑乔饰）经营着西班牙米森特城最大的市政项目建设，而此时的他也正在经历一场家庭和生意的风暴：家人对其贩卖祖业表示不满，发家好友雷蒙·科拉多（佩普·托萨尔饰）因个人原因离他而去，生意伙伴对他步步紧逼。在这样的情况下，鲁本·伯托姆的发家黑幕开始浮出水面：勾结政党，偷税漏税，贩卖毒品，发展傀儡，染指黑手党… 他的商业帝国正在慢慢瓦解。
Crematorio is the story of the Bertomeus, a family that has managed to amass a great fortune over several generations. Rubén Bertomeu left agricultural businesses behind to create a business network that has made him the richest and most powerful man in Misent. Only in the family environment Rubén Bertomeu finds opposition to his way of understanding progress.
