Eleven-year-old Alexander and his family embark on a dream Spring Break vacation to Mexico City only to have all their plans go terribly wrong when they discover a cursed idol.

“The House of the Spirits” follows the Trueba family through decades of love, conflict and social upheaval. It tells a multi-generational magical realist story of hidden romances, deep passions and the toll of a violent revolution. As the years pass, the family’s secrets and struggles build to a breaking point, setting the proud, controlling patriarch and his strong-willed granddaughter on opposite sides of a growing divide.

Gala's life collapsed when her husband accuses family in financial improprieties. To escape criminals Gala, Julia(mother), daughter hide out in a town in northern Spain. Trying to remain anonymous gossip spreads and family secrets unravel.