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In 1954, after going into exile in 1939 and being taken in by Dr. Goldstein's family for 15 years, the young psychiatrist Germán Velázquez returns to Spain to work in the women's asylum in Ciempozuelos. There, Germán meets Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, a paranoid, intelligent woman who murdered her own parents, and a young assistant, María.
An anxious mother gives in to wretched temptation on a nocturnal flight; a young girl reveals the terrible mystery behind an innocent circle of light on the ceiling; a psychiatrist discovers the symptoms of a remarkable phobia concealing the collective fear of an entire generation. A group of teenagers turn vindictive to escape the tedium of their existence.
Who doesn't have the right to fill a suitcase with the dream of a better life? A suitcase that passes from hand to hand, a silent witness to the different lives that take place throughout the 20th century. The textile colonies, the workers' revolution, the world wars, exile, make love not war, the fall of Francoism. And the constant migrations that - willingly or otherwise - do not stop.
In August 1926 the wealthy Laparra family are enjoying a day on the beach in Biarritz. Magdalena Laparra takes her two children and walks into the sea with the intention of drowning herself. Her seven-year-old daughter, Elsa, realises something is wrong and manages to escape, but her little brother is drowned.
La Moneda, September 11 is, above all, a collection of testimonies. Four characters: a waiter, a policeman, a recruit and a fireman tell us how they lived and what they did that morning of September 11, 1973 - the day when the Chilean Army decided, following an attempt in June, to depose, the Popular Unity government, presided over by Salvador Allende, with any violence necessary.
Dare to be different like the little black sheep! Every night, when the moon rises and it's time for the children to go to bed, Mr. Dream brings the sheep together to help the children to sleep, because everyone knows that the best way to fall asleep is... counting sheep!
We are Maite, Santi, Pepe, Valle and Sol, well, Sol is Valle's dog, but still one of the gang. We live in the village of Verdeluz and in school we're part of the Nature Class, where we look after the environment. One day we found a dead white tailed kite and decided to investigate what had happened. What we discovered lead us to form the Kite Tail Gang.
Andrés is fifteen and has just lost his father, Fernando. A respected police inspector, Fernando was found dead of a barbiturate overdose in the swimming pool of the Birmania Hotel, which suggests the possibility of suicide. But something doesn't add up: Fernando was optimistic and happy - why would he want to take his own life?
La Palma (1850-1946) is the setting through which Petra, the moneylender of Villa de Mazo, passes with the people in her life. The hunger that forces emigration to Cuba.
Vanesa is a modern princess but also a dreamer who lives in the clouds, in the kingdom of Babia alongside giraffes, witches and soap bubbles. When the time comes for her to marry her parents become a little anxious since her fairy godmother has posed a riddle that any suitor must answer to win the princess's hand. So, if she must wed, then at least he'll be imaginative.