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One foggy morning in 1980, Julio Vilches disembarked on the Galician island of Sálvora, located in the mouth of the Arousa River, ready to start his stint as the lighthouse keeper.
Samuel is hardly afraid of anything: not dogs, or heights, or strangers or storms… He's not even afraid of snakes! There's only one thing that scares him a little bit… Would you like to know what it is? A story for all those children who, like Samuel, face up to their fears… And they often manage to overcome them!
The beautiful old cemetery at the heart of the city of Malmö is a meeting point for spirits. Nils is one of them and he's delighted about it because he can spend all his time doing what he enjoys most: hooking up. The lingering dead have a lot going for them, and when it suits them they can go into ghost mode so nobody notices them. Or not. Siri, a very special girl, has found out about them.
The story of the love between an old manipulator and a beautiful visionary artist. An unclassifiable ballad, at certain times a parody of the noir genre, at others a family saga that nobody knows how to tell.
Lucas's mother and father are superheroes. They can do anything for him: brush his hair, dress him, even do his homework. But at night time they are so tired they don't want to play with Lucas. One day Lucas decides that from now on he will do things for himself, it will be a touch challenge, but he'll do it and be a real superhero.