Amparo Vega-León

Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.

Follows police officer Francisco "Paco" Miranda and his men through funny cases.

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

A young man arrives at the Grand Hotel, an ideal place in the middle of the wilderness to investigate his sister's disappearance. What he ignores is that he's about to meet his greater love: the pretty and seductive daughter of the Hotel's owner. Between this young couple, of different social classes, a very passionate love will be born. A dangerous romance will be entwined with the mysteries and secrets hidden between the walls of the Grand Hotel. In The Grand Hotel no one is who we think it is, no one is free of hazards or suspicious. A complex web of lies, secrets and betrayal awaits...

A group of urbanites flee the city for different reasons: existential, economic crisis, need for fresh air, search for peace, inspiration to compose ... The intention of these strangers is to settle in an abandoned town and start their lives from scratch, but when they arrive they discover that there are still some neighbors: rural people with a very different way of seeing life.

Madrid 1940. General Franco ve askerleri iktidarı ele geçirmiş, ancak bununla yetinmeyip düşmanlarını tamamen silmek istemektedir. Direnişi destekleyen kadın erkek herkes merhamet gösterilmeksizin avlanacaktır. İspanya her köşesiyle bir hapishaneye dönüşmüştür. Kadınlar hapishanesi Ventas böyle mahkûmlarla doludur; özgürlük için savaşmış kadınlar şimdi baskıya, işkenceye ve ölüme maruz kalmaktadır. Hikâyemiz böyle feci bir kaderi paylaşan bir grup kadını anlatıyor. Diktatörlüğün korkunç anılarını biz de tüm zalimliğiyle hamile mahkûm Hortensia ve kız kardeşi Pepita’nın mücadelesi üzerinden anımsıyoruz.

David attends a family meeting. During the lunch, David remembers a terrible moment that happened years ago in the family swimming pool.