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Still grieving the loss of her parents and recently unemployed, she decides to accept the inheritance and temporarily relocate to Spain. As she begins renovating the property, she forms friendships with her flatmate Sara and her neighbor Virtudes, develops a complicated relationship with Manuel, her lawyer, and starts a budding romance with Luis, a journalist who helps her investigate her family's past.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">A discovery hidden inside a wardrobe\u2014a board bearing the message <i>\u201cDear Elena: I am not crazy. Love, Mum\u201d<\/i>\u2014raises an unsettling possibility: Mar\u00eda may not have been Katharina\u2019s great-aunt at all, but her biological grandmother. Determined to uncover the truth, Katharina begins searching through archives and investigating the B\u00e9tera Psychiatric Hospital, where Mar\u00eda was confined before her death.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">Her investigation encounters numerous obstacles. The hospital refuses to release information, but Luis uses his press credentials to interview Amparo, a former patient who knew Mar\u00eda. Through Amparo\u2019s testimony and a manuscript discovered among Mar\u00eda\u2019s belongings, a tragic story emerges. Mar\u00eda had a daughter named Elena\u2014Katharina\u2019s mother\u2014and her confinement to a psychiatric institution was the result of a terrible injustice.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">After the death of her second child, Francisco, Mar\u00eda\u2019s husband Juan blamed her for the tragedy. When he discovered her speaking to the dead baby and began an affair with Isabel, the family nanny, he declared Mar\u00eda insane and had her committed. For nearly twenty years she endured electroshock treatments, isolation, and humiliation. 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