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Caleb, the middle child, kills any animal that comes into contact with him. And Calia, the youngest, draws with a precision that is deeply unsettling. Their father, a disgraced, stuttering military man, turns into a domestic tyrant. Faced with a mother who despises all three of her children, the siblings will forge an alliance to bring down the family dictatorship.<\/span><\/i><\/b>\r\n\r\n<b><i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">In a summer that seems endless, flies buzz over everything that breathes, and Casandra, a teenager in love with a rusted bridge, tells the story of her family.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">Her brother Caleb possesses a sinister gift: any animal that touches him drops dead instantly. With these corpses, he builds a macabre puzzle in the basement, an installation that grows with each new victim.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">Little Calia, only three years old, has never spoken a word, but she draws animals with a chilling perfection. The entire family fears one particular drawing: butterflies. According to a legend their mother has carried since childhood, when the girl begins to draw butterflies, it will signal that the time of death has arrived for them all.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">Their father, a stuttering military man who has fallen from grace after being suspected of participating in an attempted assassination of the dictator known as \u201cGrandpa Mustache,\u201d decides to lock his family inside the house. Frustrated and terrified, he transforms: he stops stuttering, grows a mustache to imitate the tyrant, and imposes a domestic dictatorship with roll calls at dawn, physical punishment, food rationing, and boarded-up windows.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">Casandra, fed up with confinement, runs away, escaping briefly to reach her beloved bridge, where she masturbates herself over it, channelling her most intimate impulses. But her father discovers her, drags her back home, and locks her in her room. Caleb, desperate to complete his puzzle, clings to the front door to lure in a stray dog. His father finds him and, as in his days as a torturer, crushes his hand with his boot until the bones crack. He then decrees that only the mother will receive food, leaving the children starving.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">Then what everyone feared happens. Calia begins to fill page after page with butterflies. The mother, who as a child survived the collective suicide of her entire family, panics. She destroys the drawings, but Calia continues sketching butterflies endlessly. Meanwhile, Casandra and Caleb, exhausted by their father\u2019s tyranny, plot his murder. She confesses that she was the one who reported him to \u201cGrandpa Mustache,\u201d and now they search for a hammer or a shovel to kill him. But before they can act, the mother, overwhelmed by the prophecy of the butterflies, goes down to the basement, climbs onto a chair in front of Caleb\u2019s puzzle, and hangs herself. Her body, covered in insects, becomes the final piece of her son\u2019s macabre work. The father finds the corpse, takes it down, and cremates it without any wake, ordering the children back to their rooms.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">The next day, Calia speaks for the first time: \u201cFly God says the time has come. Yours. The time to die.\u201d She was not drawing butterflies, but flies\u2014and they come to life. A swarm invades the house, covers the father, enters his mouth, and renders him powerless, reduced to a nearly inert figure, just another piece of furniture. Casandra takes his keys, and at last they leave the house.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">Years later, the father works cleaning excrement at a zoo, forever haunted by flies. The children make a pact with the insects. Casandra continues to love her bridge, and the flies sing her a romantic song while the world slowly rots around them.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">RELEVANT INFORMATION:<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> Elaine Vilar Madruga is a Cuban writer, poet, and playwright considered one of the most important voices in contemporary Latin American literature.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">Her work, marked by a critical gaze on contemporary social and political realities, moves between horror, speculative erotica, science fiction, and magical realism, addressing themes such as violence, motherhood, the female body, and structures of power. She has received several awards, including the <b>Premio Pinos Nuevos <\/b>(2013), the <b>Nollegiu Award for Best Novel in Spanish<\/b> (2023), and the <b>Premio 42 for Best Work in Spanish<\/b>.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Tyranny of Flies<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, winner of the <b>Premio C\u00e1lamo for Best Book of the Year<\/b>, is a suffocating and fierce exploration of inherited trauma and the reproduction of dictatorship in the most intimate space: the family. Its audiovisual potential is enormous. The confined structure (a house, a summer, a family) makes it ideal for a film with a claustrophobic atmosphere bordering on psychological horror. The perpetual heat, the sweat, the decay of Caleb\u2019s puzzle, and the relentless advance of the flies create a visually rich universe.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Critical acclaim:<\/span><\/b>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cA provocative and necessary novel.\u201d \u2014 Libros por Doquier<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cA brilliant novel.\u201d \u2014 M\u00e1s Leer<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cBrilliant and fierce.\u201d \u2014 eldiario.es<\/span>\r\n\r\n<i><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Tyranny of Flies<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> \u201cis a philosophy of life.\u201d \u2014 Killed by Trend<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201cA dark and sensual fable. 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