Juan Barreiro

Two Spanish provincial prostitutes fantasise about their future life in the capital, Madrid.

An art dramatic teacher, with melancholic eyes and some sort of charge over his shoulders, manages El Sotano Club by the nights, a comedy pub and gives comedy classes to other adult people by the day. All his life changes when he meets a very special student that breaks with all his schemas. Love, that strange thing.

The Penguin Lessons is the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, he discovered instead a complicated and divided nation – and a class of practically unteachable young boys. When he finds a small penguin washed up on an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside down – and the penguin becomes not only a valued friend, but also a teacher of life’s most important lessons, for Tom, the boys and many others.

In a recognizable world of madness, the world of elite soccer, young footballers become rich and famous overnight with little idea of how to manage it, and cheeky people try to make a living out of it.

A family hiding a shocking secret starts over in Madrid, where new relationships complicate their plans and the past begins to catch up with them.