Etiqueta: Journey
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Saga Someone for You (Alguien para ti)
This is not your typical boy meets boy story. Oscar is a 15-year-old high school boy who is hiding a secret from everyone, including his friends: he is in love with Pablo, his popular, sporty, handsome, and flirty classmate who he doesn’t think he stands a chance with. Oscar is a young, hard-working,…
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Cherubs in Hell (Querubines en el infierno)
The harrowing story of Mexicans who fought for the U.S. in World War II. Cannon fodder: that is what the Mexican migrants who enlisted in the U.S. Army to fight in World War II were, under the promise of citizenship and recognition from a country that had reluctantly adopted them. Los Angeles, during…
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The Chasers Saga (Saga Los Rastreadores)
The Secret City | The Hidden Power Other invisible cities exist within the city of Madrid. The Mopa clan, a gang of seven-centimeter anthropomorphic creatures called chasers, has lived hidden for decades on the rooftop of a department store in downtown Madrid. They steal food from the supermarket, play in the aisles at midnight and have fun scaring customers.?However, they have to stay hidden, because if humans see them, they would be instantly turned into salt. Sasa is a young thirteen-year-old clan creature who has never been outdoors. She hopes to soon pass the Test that will allow her to become an explorer in order to fulfill her…
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Only For You Saga (Saga Solo por ti)
Provoke Me | And Love Me | Eternally | Tempt Me The thorny path of love. Annia Moreno is a young woman in her twenties who works in an important real estate agency in Marbella, Spain. She is a strong, independent woman with a stable job who has finally been able to…
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Favaloro: The Great Operator (Favaloro: El gran operador)
The Argentine doctor who transformed and democratized surgery worldwide. René Favaloro is the most transcendental Argentinean doctor of the 20th century for his contribution to humanity and the lives that have been saved as a result of the surgical procedure he systematized in 1967; a procedure that would transform world medicine forever with his bypass technique. This is a journey through his life, from his origins, his training, his influences and his experiences that shows the process that delineated his way of thinking and understanding the country where he lived. It is a journey through the ups and downs that marked the life of the heart surgeon committed to guaranteeing access to highly complex medical procedures even for those who could not afford it. Since his arrival to his country of origin (Italy) to the tragic afternoon of his suicide. Along the way, he deals with his childhood; the fanaticism he inherited from his uncle for gymnastics; his time at the Rafael Hernández National School, where he received a humanistic education from teachers such as the essayist Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, the Dominican writer Pedro Henríquez Ureña or the art critic Jorge Romero Brest; or at the University of La Plata in Argentina. There was also his ideological distance from Peronism; his time as a rural doctor in the Argentiean town of Jacinto Arauz; his settlement in the United States, where he perfected his skills as a surgeon specializing in coronary diseases at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic and established the definitive procedure for the coronary bypass, which since 1968 has saved millions of lives around the world. And, of course, his return to Argentina, where he created the foundation that bears his name and from which he tried to provide high quality medicine for all. Like no other figure in the medical field in Argentina, the surgeon René Gerónimo Favaloro managed to exceed his academic prestige to become a public figure of the highest profile and an ethical reference for millions of people. RELEVANT DATA: Pablo Morosi, a researcher and author of Favaloro. The Great Operator, spent two years conducting an in-depth research and more than 140 interviews that immersed him in the world of one of the most important doctors in the history of Argentina. What the critics have said: “A complete, detailed…
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Before Saga (Saga Antes de)
Before you say goodbye – Tell me you'll dance with me | Before you decide to leave me | Tell me you'll marry me | Before you say I love you Often, the difficult part is not believing in love, but realizing that you have found it. Ari, Lucas, Becca, Jota, Lucia…
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Every Summer in the World (Todos los veranos del mundo)
The rekindling of a summer love. Freshly fired from a law firm in Barcelona where she had been working for many years, Helena sets off to Serralles, a village in the Pyrenees. She spent all her childhood summers there with her family, and now she is returning to celebrate her wedding. Helena, who…
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The Plinio Saga
Collection of 33 novels Intuition and keen understanding of human nature. Plinio is a local policeman. He is the head of the Municipal Police of the town of Tomelloso, in La Mancha (Spain), far away from the hustle and bustle of the city and cosmopolitan places like Paris or London. His actual name is…
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The Legend of La Peregrina (La leyenda de la Peregrina)
The most legendary jewel in all of history. The story begins two days after Richard Burton gives Elizabeth Taylor La Peregrina pearl. Taylor investigates said jewel and comes to find out about its legendary voyage throughout the lives of the world´s most emblematic characters of the last 500 years of history. In 1579,…
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Ice and Silver (Hielo y plata)
She will sacrifice everything for what she loves the most: the ice rink. Mariya is a young woman who lives with her mother and older sister, Nastya in Spain. The two sisters are figure skating prodigies. Their mother, who also happens to be their manager, was an ice skater when she was…
