Eva, Alba y Juan are the protagonist of the story. Eva gives birth to Marina, Alba has just been left by her boyfriend. And Juan is happily married. Their paths intersect one night and their lifes will change forever.

A gifted young cellist from a fallen aristocratic family must make an impossible choice when her best friend's powerful father offers a solution to her family's desperate situation.

玛塞拉是一个年轻的女子，她最近手头有些拮据，于是找到一份暑假工，那就是照看阿玛尔多——一个常年卧病在床的老人，老人的孩子都不在身边。她本以为自己的难题解决了，谁料阿玛尔多不久后便去世，这使得玛塞拉陷入困境。老人的死让她再度失业，而一切都让她几近崩溃……尽管身陷窘境，玛塞拉还是用她顽强的毅力坚持生活下去，她告诉所有人，死亡并不能阻碍生活的脚步。

Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and who resembles him more. Written by Pablo Montoya

2001 film by Àlex Ollé

2021 film directed by Fernando León de Aranoa

In Madrid's bustling streets, two perfect strangers, Caye, a thirty-year-old single woman, and Zulema, an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic, struggle to make ends meet working as prostitutes, of course, unbeknownst to their families. Under those circumstances and by an unforeseen twist of fate, the two rivals will quickly bond, and even though they are worlds apart, Caye and Zulema will soon realise that they have so much in common, and in reality, their coincidental and somewhat improbable encounter will be the beginning of a beautiful and profound friendship.

After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and unofficial leader of the group. A court case hangs over him relating to a shipyard lamp he smashed during a protest against the closure. José is bitter that his wife, Ana, is employed when he is not.

2017 film by Fernando León de Aranoa

2015 film directed by Fernando León de Aranoa