Azucena Rodríguez

A liberal re-tooling of Hans Christian Andersens' tale "The Story of the Mother," which follows a mother's quest through a maze-like forest as she seeks to retrieve her child from Death. this version of the tale is set in a violent and crime filled European city. An aged and powerful magnate is dying. He offers Laura, his young and beautiful mistress, a birthday gift and Laura much prefers that her mother, the Duchess, dies instead. To find her, GM engages the Detective.

Madrid, 1974. Former women's jail of Yeserias. Lucia, a girl well situated in society, is condemned to spend ten years in jail due to her relation with a politic militant against Franco's dictatorship. While being in prison she lives with every kind of woman: intelectuals, killers, illiterates, ... All of them must share food, living space, joys and pities; joined by the same fate. (imdb)

Fran, Rosa, Ana and Marisa work in the Reference Book department at a publishing house. As a team, they have to spend several months putting together a Geography Atlas to be sold in installments. During that time, they have some difficulties working as a team but what really matters is that all of them, each in his/her own way, in very different circumstances, redefine their lives. (FILMAFFINITY)