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Ala de mosca
Carlos Ovelar, the owner of a modest photographic agency in Madrid receives a call from Alberto Bastida, an important lawyer from Santiago de Compostela, asking for his help in finding Bastida's daughter Ania, who disappeared a few days earlier. Carlos, a former member of the first intelligence services formed in the newly democratic Spain, will be torn between nostalgia and betrayal as he begins his investigations, which take him back to the ultimate source of the 1981 coup, until the morning the first body, that of the younger son of a Galician cocaine boss, appears on the beach at Vilagarcía. A splendid example of the best of the noir genre, served up in Aníbal Malvar's unique (and dazzling) style, as he tells the story of the degradation of the Spanish secret service from the confusion of 23rd February 1981 to a war between drug traffickers that takes place fifteen years later.