In a rural Galician village the local miller, a resentful widower, observes how the worst nightmares of Galician oral tradition are becoming reality around him.

Every Thursday, three friends meet up in a bar. One is a film director who always seems to be blurring the boundary between reality and imagination.

Poor, sick and almost blind. This is how Benito Pérez Galdós, the Spanish genius of 20th century literature, lived his last years. In spite of everything, he did not lack in affection from his friends, family and neighbours.

Young Fanya and her grandmother Simone, the healer, find a strange human-like creature named Sharduk lying wounded and unconscious on the beach. Simone recognises him as a spirit of the waters and she and Fanya try to save his life.

After Franco's victory, the young republican doctor Guillermo García is able to continue living in Madrid, thanks to a false identity organised for him by his best friend, a diplomat whose life Guillermo saved in 1937 and who in 1946 comes home on

After Franco's victory, the young republican doctor Guillermo García is able to continue living in Madrid, thanks to a false identity organised for him by his best friend, a diplomat whose life Guillermo saved in 1937 and who in 1946 comes home on

The wealthiest family in an inland city is composed of the Wife, her Husband, their two young children, the Wife's mother and Amalia, the maid. In the large house where they live, everything is impeccable but appearances can be deceptive.

The chance discovery of an unusual, apparently worthless painting in the rubble is, in fact, the tip of the iceberg of a collection of extremely valuable, eccentric, irreverent works of art that a group of enlightened people hid during the War of

'Nobody loved the Pissimbonis. They lived in an ivy-clad house at the top of a hill, far enough away from the other houses for everyone to think of them as living outside the town.

Prague, August 10, 1942. Hans Krasa, a Czech composer and orchestra conductor of Jewish origin, is arrested by the SS and sent to the concentration camp at Theresienstadt.