Aia Kruse

Three young men, restless and consumed by unfulfilled desires, drift through Madrid forming a volatile and toxic friendship. Their resentment toward women grows into a shared language of anger, pushing them into a spiral of reckless acts, broken relationships, and self-destruction. As their lives begin to unravel, each of them is forced to confront the darkness they’ve nurtured — and to face the uncomfortable truth about who they are and what they fear becoming.

Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.

Lide works the night shift for the construction company in charge of a new high-speed train network, a project that has attracted protests and violent attacks. One morning she wakes up to discover that her teenage daughter, Ane, is nowhere to be found.

Nora is 30 years old; she lives with her Argentinian grandfather Nicolás and regularly takes care of her friend Meri's children. She writes the horoscope for the town newspaper, although her dream is to be a travel writer. When her grandfather dies, she inherits an old Dyane 6. Despite being a terrible driver, Nora will set out aimlessly on a road trip along the Basque coast so that her grandfather's ashes may finally rest beside those of her grandmother. The road will soon teach her that she's not a born traveller and that her dream had nothing to do with roving, but was only an excuse for the chance to be free, to grow, to close wounds and, for the first time, to find her own happiness.

Ane's birthday is approaching, and with it, the gift she has been longing for: a car that Jon, her neighbor, has repaired for her. For her and for her mother, María, who could thus move Ane away from the neighborhood. Until things calm down, nothing more. But Ane is not willing to leave: following the government's new measure, the Gaztetxe in her neighborhood is going to be closed, and everyone must be mobilized to prevent it. And Ane knows that to achieve her goals, sacrifices must be made.

They jumped on the road and were crushed under the car wheels. When she was a little girl she could see them by the car's lights on the summer nights. Now, years later, a weird revenge sensation is in her nightmares. Paula tells a psychologist of her fear of locusts while protecting her unborn child from a faceless threat.