After dying in a ridiculous household accident, a racist, misanthropic civil servant is forced, as part of a delirious divine plan, to inhabit the bodies of different people in order to learn what he never practiced in life: empathy, love, and redemption.
Ezequiel Montes Garrido is a misanthropic, racist, selfish, and abusive postal worker. Bitter and resentful, he turns his wife Carmen’s life into a living hell. One day, after a domestic accident caused by an omelet sabotaged with laxatives, he dies in the most grotesque way. But his end is not truly the end: he awakens in a white void where he comes face to face with an elderly, capricious God who warns him that his fate (heaven or hell) has not yet been decided. To earn salvation, Ezequiel must inhabit the bodies of others and learn firsthand all that he always despised: empathy, love, care, and selfless giving.
His first mission places him in the body of Mari, the mother of seven children and the wife of an authoritarian husband. Ezequiel, incapable of making a bed or preparing breakfast, discovers what motherhood truly means and the daily struggle of keeping a poor household afloat. Reluctantly, he learns to cook, to braid hair, to comfort, and to stand up to an abusive spouse. Little by little, he transforms the home’s dynamic and, after finding work caring for Anto, a woman battling cancer, he experiences genuine tenderness for the first time. Once he passes the test, God shows him the real change he has sparked before sending him into his next life.
Ezequiel then wakes up in the body of Romeo, a young Black Cuban dance instructor. For a racist like him, the experience is torture. He suffers the rejection, prejudice, and humiliation he once inflicted on others. He must tackle a mission he doesn’t understand: dancing and teaching kizomba to older women—something he finds ridiculous and demeaning. Romeo also turns out to be the son of Anto, the cancer patient he previously cared for as Mari, and now he must care for her again, this time from the place of a son and familial love. In Romeo’s body, he begins to grasp the lesson: living also means accompanying others in their fragility.
After Anto’s death, the journey continues. Now Ezequiel wakes up in the body of Jesús, a gay antiques dealer in a stable relationship. His initial homophobia paralyzes him, but little by little he allows himself to be cared for by Mario, his partner, and discovers the love he never gave his wife or his son Javi, whom he rejected for being gay. The remorse breaks him apart and forces him to confront his own past head-on.
In the finale, Ezequiel inhabits the body of Yvette, a woman who crosses paths with Carmen—his widow—at the airport. Face to face, he hears from his wife’s own lips all the pain, infidelity, and abandonment that marked their marriage. Disarmed, he acknowledges his guilt and bids her farewell, wishing her peace and the long-desired trip to Paris he never granted her. Exhausted, and aware that his destiny still hangs on the eternal wager between God and Lucifer, Ezequiel remains suspended in the uncertainty of his final judgment: salvation or eternal damnation.
RELEVANT INFORMATION: Mar del Olmo is a philologist and interpreter by training, as well as an editorial proofreader and writer. She has collaborated on numerous successful novels and essays. She has been awarded the International Latin Book Awards for Best Women’s Issues Book. She runs a blog and has self-published several short story anthologies.
Mala vida offers a narrative journey with enormous audiovisual potential: a story combining human drama, social critique, and dark comedy, with moments ranging from grotesque to deeply emotional. Its mix of irreverent humor, social portrait, and spiritual reflection—along with the protagonist’s powerful arc—places the work in the realm of series like The Good Place or After Life, but with a sharper, more critical edge. Despite centering on Ezequiel, Mala vida is also profoundly ensemble-driven, filled with endearing characters and diverse storylines that enrich the plot.
AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Miniseries, Film, TV Film.
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: Spanish.
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