Los Peores Años de Nuestra Vida is a 1994 Spanish romantic comedy directed by Emilio Martínez Lázaro in which Alberto, a hopeless romantic and failed writer, finally finds love when he starts dating the beautiful María — but his confident and charming brother Roberto, who was supposed to be helping him, ends up seducing María behind his back, stealing her away and turning a simple love story into a painful betrayal between two brothers under the same roof.