Marco Buitrago is a free-lance journalist who survives by writing scientific articles, until his feature on the international human genome project brings Marie Alida Karwecki into his life, and the old lady changes his whole existence.
In the village of Palenque, almost nobody knows how to read, but the shopkeeper Señor Velandia is one of the few who does.
Ribera del Ebre, April of 1930. Dolors, Lola, is found dead on the shore of the Ebre river.
On 20th November 1936 a man died and a myth was born. Buenaventura Durruti, the mechanic, anarchist gunman, and member of the Barcelona anti-fascist militia.
In the early 1990s, the death of a young boy changes the lives and routines of a group of villagers on the Mediterranean coast who in the last forty years have already lived through huge transformation.
With an attentive and subtle gaze and an unaffected emotiveness, Paloma Díaz-Mas explores the meeting of two stories, two pasts (that of the family and the collective past, the political and the personal), which remains embodied in objects, accoun
'Nobody loved the Pissimbonis. They lived in an ivy-clad house at the top of a hill, far enough away from the other houses for everyone to think of them as living outside the town.
Vicente Friman is the new kid. It’s happened before, so he’s not too worried. But this time is different. This time there’s Barbara, the leader of the Protectors. Or so she thinks.
Sofi lives with her parents and her grandfather in a house near to the wood. Sometimes her grandfather disappears for hours or even days, and returns home seeming very happy, albeit dirty.
Adelaida García Morales is one of the most mysterious figures in recent culture.