Carlos Troya

One night. One city. Madrid. Five conversations. Nine characters. They tell personal stories, invented stories, also an old story that goes on from conversation to conversation, a story from an old Japanese film.

The reunion of a group of friends after years without seeing each other will bring out the alcoholic memory of old loves and wounds, and will push them to travel to a past that they fear and long for.

Paolo is a lonely museum ward. He takes a touristic bus every Friday, with the only company of his dog Coco. Everything changes when he meets Francesca, a weird girl that casually hops onto the bus after a fight with a pretender.

Basque Country, Spain, late nineties. A young policewoman manages to infiltrate the ruthless terrorist gang ETA.

Ariadna discovers that her grandfather has been searching for the remains of his father, who disappeared during the Civil War. Determined to help him, she travels to Burgos, where a mass grave is being excavated, and where he could be buried. During her stay there, she will learn the story of Antoni Benaiges, a young teacher from Tarragona who was her grandfather's teacher before the war. Through an innovative pedagogical method, Antoni inspired his students and made them a promise: to take them to see the sea.

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