The Bind

Claudia is 18 years old when her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. She is reluctant to give up her youth for an early carer’s role, and her motto outside her home will be not to stop... But the disease will have the same motto. 

In 1992, 7-year-old Xiaowei arrives in Barcelona to reunite with his parents. Despite his mother’s efforts, their bond remains distant throughout his childhood, adolescence, and youth. 

After a prolonged one-night stand, Oliver and Irina decide to go together to Oliver’s ex’s wedding in Ibiza. There they will have to run from the secret international organization Irina had escaped from. 

Conchita wants a brooch she can’t afford and contacts Jesús to fulfil her dream. But what she feels when she possesses it is not what she expected. 

Elena learns that the strange illness that her boyfriend Javier has is terminal, and there is no medication available to treat it. However, he claims to have found a way out of it: a spiritual cure that he believes will save him. 

1978. The outskirts of Barcelona, shaped and raised mainly by immigrants from Extremadura and Andalusia, built with their own hands, is not considered part of the city. Their shacks do not even have running water, electricity, or public transportation. Fed up with a city hall that keeps saying they can’t send transportation there because the shack-lined streets are too narrow and unsafe, a bus driver (Eduard Fernández) hijacks his own bus and drives it to his neighborhood to prove that his people can indeed have a public transportation line. An act of peaceful dissidence that transformed Barcelona and changed the concept of the outskirts forever.

When Claire, a vibrant septuagenarian, is diagnosed with an incurable illness, she decides to end her days in a clinic in Switzerland. Flavio, her inseparable husband of over 40 years, feels unable to face life without her. Meanwhile, their daughter Morgana becomes a mediator between them while trying to clarify her own thoughts. The three embark on a fascinating and profound journey of love and self-discovery.

Anabel and her mother, Delia, grieve for Julián, Anabel’s father. An eviction notice forces them out of their Barcelona home and back to the olive groves of Jaén which they once left looking for a better future. Together, they will look for a way to rebuild their future by going back to their abandoned roots.