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In the village of Palenque, almost nobody knows how to read, but the shopkeeper Señor Velandia is one of the few who does. When Gina starts to receive letters, she thinks they must be love letters, and her little sister decides to learn how to read them.
Ribera del Ebre, April of 1930. Dolors, Lola, is found dead on the shore of the Ebre river. Boada, her last lover and Ramsès, the village doctor, will investigate the case and reconstruct her life, starting with her tough childhood by the river and her exile to a modernizing Barcelona at the end of the 19th century.
On 20th November 1936 a man died and a myth was born. Buenaventura Durruti, the mechanic, anarchist gunman, and member of the Barcelona anti-fascist militia. Half a century later the French journalist Libertad Casal decides to uncover the mystery of his death.
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.
When his grandma locks herself in the family Toyota, demanding to be taken to an old people's home, everything in Abel's life is turned upside down. He's overwhelmed by a flood of doubts and misses his grandma's advice.
'Nobody loved the Pissimbonis. They lived in an ivy-clad house at the top of a hill, far enough away from the other houses for everyone to think of them as living outside the town. The family comprised many brothers and sisters and nobody even knew if the paterfamilias and his wife, Ignacio and Martina Pissimboni, were still alive.
Vicente Friman is the new kid. It’s happened before, so he’s not too worried. But this time is different. This time there’s Barbara, the leader of the Protectors. Or so she thinks. And there’s also the Apaches, a band of teenagers who are terrorizing the neighbourhood. They all want something from Vicente, but he doesn’t quite know what. And he’s getting sick of it.
Sofi lives with her parents and her grandfather in a house near to the wood. Sometimes her grandfather disappears for hours or even days, and returns home seeming very happy, albeit dirty. And that's not the only strange thing about him: there are his glasses, those very strange glasses. . . . What is her grandfather hiding? What is he really up to?
London, 1871. Young Aurelius feels as though he is languishing away at the family's tavern, living a life as grey as his father's. However, one morning he discovers his destiny: Houdini, the great magician, announces his arrival in London with an array of colourful posters. From that point on, Aurelius becomes obsessed with introducing himself to Houdini and becoming his apprentice.