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El mejor lugar del mundo es aquí mismo
Iris is thirty-six and she is shattered by the death of her parents in an accident. A grey and cold afternoon, when the world seems to have no sense, she begins to walk the streets trying not to return home. Just when she is thinking of doing something mad, she discovers a café she hadn’t seen before. Its strange name “El mejor lugar del mundo es aquí mismo” intrigues her so much that she would enter. There, she would meet Luca, an Italian who she talks to for six days at different tables, while wonderful things happen. Iris has the feeling that Luca knows more than he seems and while she is falling in love with him, they talk between the aromas of chocolate about everything you need for your existence. But, as if he was a god, the seventh day he is not in the café. Soon she will discover he is not coming back and she begins to seek him. In the abandoned place where the café used to be, she begins to find some clues that will reveal his enigmatic past. But the most important revelation is still to come…