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What happens to the Dancing Queen when school's over? April had everything: the boy of her dreams, a scholarship for a prestigious university and a promising future in New York. But sometimes life delivers a low blow: two blinding headlights and a desperate man proved enough to put an end to her dream of a fairy story ending.
Humour, intrigue and love are at the heart of this frenetic comedy full of misunderstandings where nobody is who they claim to be. When blonde and perfect Ángela is too ill to travel to Ireland, her sister Marina, forever beset by problems and disasters, goes in her place.
Richard O'Hara is waiting in a hotel in Shanghai for a contract to be signed between the Government of China and western pharmaceutical companies that will make him a wealthy man. After his stay in Asia, he receives a strange commission: to locate a section of landscape that appears in an old photograph.
Liberated from the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945, Andreu Ribera's sole objective is to get to Paris to find news of Rosa. There, in the Hotel Lutecia, he waits for news with countless other relations of the dead, disappeared and survivors. When everything seems hopeless, he finds help in Blanche, a widow whose son died in the war and who runs a bistro near to the Hotel Lutecia.