Lidia Otón

Andres is a flamenco singer who has just gotten out of prison after being falsely convicted of the murder of Romero, a member of his band. As Andres tries to re-acclimate himself to freedom, he discovers things have not been going his way while he was up the river; his wife Lucia is having an affair with another man, while his bullying father Isidoro is obsessed with getting revenge against Don Manuel, who rules a local crime syndicate known as the Junco Family.

“Do not wish things to be as you want them to be; wish them as they are.” Epictetus. “It would not be better for people if what they wish for happened.” Heraclitus.

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.

Follows the professional and personal lives of the staff of the fictitious Hospital Central in Madrid.

A caustic satire of many of the 'types' found in Spanish society.

In 1920s Madrid, four women at the National Telephone Company ring in revolution as they deal with romance, envy and the modern workplace.