In 2015, playwright and director Lara Díez Quintanilla (Lleida, 1985) traveled across the United States with eight other people in a van. "We were all progressive, feminist, left-wing," recalls the director. But when a friend told a supposedly true story about a couple's sexual ordeal, all masks fell away. "Suddenly, everyone jumped in a very wild way. Possessive instincts surfaced, and we were never the same again," recalls Díez, who is also the author of plays such as Abandoned inheritance (2020), Euphoria (2021) and The spacelessness (2022). Over time, the anecdote began to appear in his life until, in 2022, he appropriated it to write a text for the Temporada Alta Playwriting Tournament. The piece was a finalist and won the Transatlantic Playwriting Tournament. Given this reception, Díez decided to expand it to turn it into a play that he titled Guilty pleasure and which premieres on May 12 at the Goya Theater.