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"There are words that fall slowly, drop by drop, in a constant assault on the heart. They were never intrepid or courageous, simple, ordinary words… "Words of rain" is the story of Teo, an indigenous woman born in the Peruvian jungles of Ucayali, who has to travel to Asturias with her husband.
Situated on the border between life and death, High Heaven is an unusual site of pilgrimage, an abandoned town which holds a mysterious attraction for the suicidal. There a man dressed as a scarecrow plays the part of angel (and gravedigger) and acts with the innocence and ineptitude typical of silent cinema comedies.
1938. Dimas Prado, a youg and ambitious fascist, takes charge of an investigation into the double murder of an adolescent prostitute and her Madame at a house in Burgos. His plan is not to catch the murderer - a distinguished Nationalist general - but to eliminate all trace of the crime, evidence and witnesses.
N3 is a young humanonid who gets lost during an interstellar journey on his flying motorbike and ends up on Earth, in the Bay of Cadiz to be precise, where he is rescued by the sailors of the mythical Vaporcito.
Palacios is a man in his forties who is trying to move away from his most recent profession: contract killer. A stroke of luck in the form of a very well-paid job seems to make retirement a possibility, but once the job is done everything starts to become complicated and both his payment and his own integrity are in grave danger.
'On a starry night, if I look at the sky I feel small, as though I were a grain of sand compared to a planet.' In this big world there are times when we can feel very small. The moon is small compared to the Earth; the Earth is small compared to the sun; likewise the sun, compared to other stars. But, really, what are we? Big or small?
Prestigious architect Emil Zarco receives the most important commission of his life, an ambitious urban project with which he can showcase his ideas on the essence and purpose of men: that we are a long lineage destined to perpetuate itself in search of progress and the betterment of our capabilities.