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Lucie and Danny are best siblings. In fact, they are more than that, they are best friends. They share everything, have no secrets, but this beautiful relationship changes.
Nadia is heading to Ibiza to oversee the work at Sa Marea, the house she and her husband Marcos have bought. Her marriage is not at its best. Their inability to have children, which at first didn't affect their relationship, now seems to be all they can think about. The house renovations could be the chance for them to find some much-needed peace.
Sandra has decided to go to live in a village on the east coast of Spain: she has left her job and, pregnant, spends the days trying to put off the decision of what to do with her life. On the beach, she meets a Norwegian couple in their eighties who seem to be the solution to Sandra’s problems.
Winter 1936: the rebel troops that have risen up against the Second Spanish Republic bomb Madrid. The republican government decides to start evacuating the most valuable paintings in the Prado.
In the early 1990s, the death of a young boy changes the lives and routines of a group of villagers on the Mediterranean coast who in the last forty years have already lived through huge transformation. The unexpected tragedy reveals suspicions that grow into speculations, but the answers are far from simple in a village where everybody knows everybody else.
With an attentive and subtle gaze and an unaffected emotiveness, Paloma Díaz-Mas explores the meeting of two stories, two pasts (that of the family and the collective past, the political and the personal), which remains embodied in objects, accounts and memories.
What do dogs dream about? Maybe looking like their owners? Having fleas and being able to make fire? The inhabitants of Lútaca wake up one day transformed into dogs; including Baltasar Bellaterra, who can't accept his new nature and discovers that losing your humanity isn't so different from losing a loved one.
Nothing is as it seems, says Teo, who, in keeping with this phrase, conceals his own name. He is 27 years old, still lives with his mother, suffers from a mild form of lupus and worships Lenny Bruce. Shut up in his tiny room, he practices escapism until one day the rain drives him into a bar, where he meets Lena.
STAY ALIVE Antonia Scott is not afraid of anything. Only herself. NEVER WAS But there is someone more dangerous than her. Someone who could defeat her. SO DIFFICULT The Black Wolf is getting closer and closer. And Antonia, for the first time, is scared.