Miguel Poveda

María Jiménez reviews her life, personal and professional career, reveals some of its issues and her day-to-day life facing lung cancer. María Jiménez has been one of the most popular singers in Spain in the last half century and, at the same time, the protagonist of a tremendous personal story. Multifaceted, rebellious and outspoken, for this documentary the artist surrounds herself with her son and her pets in her house, in Chiclana de La Frontera, to review her life path. Friends, family and confidants of her also provide anecdotes and testimonies about her. María Jiménez openly recounts her biographical milestones, even the most painful ones, such as the loss of her daughter Rocío or the mistreatment of her ex-husband, the actor Pepe Sancho. She also doesn't leave out lung cancer from her. ‘María Jiménez: mi mundo es otro’ offers a much more powerful vision of the singer than the one we had known in recent decades.

At the age of eighty-two, Carrete wants to fulfil a dream before the end of his career as a dancer: to perform in a great theatre in New York. Despite his tireless enthusiasm, his health tells him that his days as a flamenco master are coming to an end. His art saved him from starvation and the cinemas sheltered him from the cold during the Spanish post-war period. And it was on the big screen that he met his admired Fred Astaire, who settled in his imagination as a fantasy to aspire to. And as he awaits his long-awaited American adventure, Carrete looks back on his past. Joaquín, one of his sons, who was a talented guitarist and whose hopes were dashed by prison, wants to play again. Father and son try to find each other again, while the mirage of the giant skyscrapers fades away, revealing the reality.