Aleix Rengel

Kathmandu, Nepal, early 1990s. Laia, a young teacher from Catalonia, Spain, works at a local school in the slums of the city where poverty reigns. Her personal path, besieged by a harsh sum of indescribable social conditions, will be a struggle against a nefarious educational system, but a journey of self-discovery as well.

A judge has confiscated the phone of Pedro, a 17-year-old teenager, for recording the beating of another young man from his high school with his cell phone and distributing it on social media. His motivation for doing so was powerful. Or at least that's how he sees it. The "victim" is a high school bully who had the school in fear. Pedro believes he has done justice. Mario, his cool uncle, reproaches him for his actions in a reasoned and forceful manner. During an innocent day of animal tagging, Mario and Pedro witness a murder. Pursued and at high risk of death, Mario will fight to save his life and will face the same dilemma his nephew faced at school: whether or not to sacrifice the lives of the hitmen to save their own lives.

Jordi is going to make it big, cost what it may, juggling a stock exchange portfolio; Cristina combines booze, drugs and sex in the celebration of her birthday; and Pau, in search of strong emotions, turns to violence, xenophobic attitude. Three young protagonists flee towards the future in the pursuit of an illusory happiness.

One night, while Raul is with his girlfriend in his car, he sees how two boys are beating another one. Raul saves the guy, Alex, frightening the other two, and proposes a revenge to him: to burn their car. Thus they do it and it creates a link between them: from that moment they will be burning cars through the city and they will record it in video to upload it later on the Internet. A year later, while they are burning a car, an old man is injured when he tries to extinguish the fire. Alex goes to help it while Raul flees. Alex and the old man, Antonio, goes to the hospital, where the boy knows Isabel, Antonio's granddaughter. Isabel studies and works, and now, without a car, the things will become more difficult to her. Alex quickly feels attracted by Isabel; they become good friends and Alex is moved away of Raul in spite of his attempts recover him.

El cor de la ciutat is a TVC television soap opera first broadcast on TV3 on 11 September 2000 and last broadcast on 23 December 2009. The show is the most watched fiction program in Catalonia, Spain, especially among female audiences, drawing around 28-33% of the audience with as much as 40% during season finales. El cor de la ciutat follows the lives of the people who live and work in the neighbourhood of Sants and Sant Andreu in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.