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Professor Ueno buys a puppy for his daughter. The relationship between the professor and Hachiko, the dog, soon becomes a special one. Hachiko accompanies him to the station every morning and awaits his return at 5.30 in the afternoon. Every working day. Every month. Every year. A relationship based on friendship and loyalty has developed between them. And nothing can break it...
Inspired by La terre en rond, a mythical travel book about a round-the-world journey at the beginning of the sixties, undertaken by two Frenchmen in a Citroën 2CV, a young Galician called Jorge Sierra dreams of emulating their journey. After finding a companion ready to undertake the project, he prepares the 2CV he calls "Naranjito" for its orange bodywork.
Somewhere between journalistic chronicle, pamphlet, peasant drama and newsstand magazine, The Girls' History of Spain appropriates events and places in our recent history and returns them to us in the form of a corrosive, polyphonic and vibrant puzzle.
An unknown adult unexpectedly turns up in the lives of Gilmar and Lanh at the same time but in different parts of the world. Gilmar lives in Bolivia and his father works in the old silver miines of Cerro Rico in the city of Potosí; Lanh is an orphan, she was taken in by the Thuy Xuân orphanage in Vietnam after her parents died when the Perfume River flooded.