Javier Ruesga

Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.

After spending a month at Albanta - a rehabilitation camp for teenagers with problems like drug addiction, low self-esteem, or bullying - trouble teenager Gonzalo commits suicide. A year later, his sister Olivia decides to visit the camp in an attempt to find out why he took his own life. But it seems that Albanta has other plans for her and the rest of its visitors.

Max is a Jack Russell dog genetically modified for criminal purposes so he is able to talk. Running away from the criminals he's working for, he is wounded, then saved by detective-wannabe Alberto, who is fire and house-hunting. They end up staying with Alberto's sister-in-law Marta and her two children. Thanks to them all, Alberto finally manages to be a detective, and he and Max establish their detective agency: Sabuesos.