Etiqueta: Past
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The Pythagoras Saga (Saga Pitágoras)
Crimes, mystery, a bleeding battle for succession for a powerful dynasty, and romance in a thrilling action story. Old philosopher Pythagoras, one of the most powerful people of his time, is about to choose his successor from among the great masters of the community, his closest disciples. The eventual successor will inherit such a huge…
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Father Anthony Fowler Saga
A conclave, a new Pope, Vatican dark secrets. The novel that moved up everything. Rome, 2nd April 2005. Pope John Paul II just passed away and thousands of people gather in St. Peter’s Square to bid farewell to him. At the same time, the preparations for the conclave are already set to elect the new…
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Bad Leaf (Mala Hoja)
An introspective look of 19th century Cuba. In February 1874, two Spanish businessmen, a tobacco grower and a sugar farmer, meet at a restaurant in Havana, where they start a conversation while they smoke a cigar. On that dialogue, both characters tell why they abandoned Spain and how they managed to make…
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The Dogs (Los perros)
Almost a century after the events, detective Maribel Álvarez reopens the case of the serial killer who murdered five students of the Residencia de Estudiantes (Student Residence) in Madrid in 1920. Álvarez decides to work on the case since her great-grandfather, the inspector in charge of the investigation back then, did not get any answers.…
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The Sadness of the Samurai (La Tristeza del Samurái)
She was only a puppet in a complex and bloody conspiracy of power and revenge that has lasted for three generations… until now. María Bengoechea is a young and cold lawyer in Spain during the transition who, in the last days of her life, wants to redeem her biggest mistake: incarcerating inspector César Alcalá without…
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Beatriz chose not to get married (Beatriz decidió no casarse)
Beatriz dedicated her entire life to fulfill her only dream: to be a successful and recognized writer. At forty-five years, his long hours of work have been rewarded with the Cervantes Prize for Literature, a prize he won after having a life full of nights in solitude with the only company of wine and music.…
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The Invisible Witness (El testigo invisible)
After years of absolute silence, the only witness of the death of the Romanovs will tell the truth. Leonid Sednev, who worked as a chimney sweep for the imperial family and later on as a kitchen helper, was only 15 the night of July 17th, 1918. Those were the latest hours of the Romanovs, who…
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Three (Tres) (Film)
Rocío, Ángela and Carlota have not seen one another in the last twenty years, concretely, since they finished their studies. Having been inseparable friends until that moment, the future took them to different points. Now they have a common certainty: they feel lonesome. In the course of a long night, they try to find…
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Winds From the South (Film)
Victoria has just finished a troublesome relationship with a woman and she decides to leave Paris and return to her native Spain. She arrives in Palomares, a small town in Almería, and there she is employed as a substitute teacher. Everyone is very welcoming there and Victoria focuses her attention on Maria, who, shortly…
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The Hungry Night (La noche hambrienta)
Julián Beltrán has just confessed to the murder of his wife to the police, but his story is so improbable and his behavior so strange that they decide to put it in the hands of a medical team. Beltran tells the doctors that the plan to end the life of his wife, Marian, departed from…
