Diagonal TV

In a Spain consumed by ambition and power, the future of an empire depends of the mind state of a single woman.

Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

In a flashback, Kim Ros, explains the story of a TV director-host, himself, who created a scary show that finally destroyed him. The show was called IRIS, and their stars were sociopathyc people who didn't know they really were part of the show.

Armed robbers take cash from a department store, but they are killed or fatally wounded in their escape. A dying thief stashes a valise with a million Euros in the old car of Julia, a single parent who dances at a Barcelona peep show. She decides to keep the cash, but her suspicious babysitter tips off a nasty private investigator hired by the store's security firm to recover the cash. Julia manages to fight off the private eye the first time he confronts her, and she bolts with her daughter after asking a neighborhood bar owner for aid. He's Luis, quiet and helpful; he takes her to his mother's house in a small town. Can Julia evade the various bad apples on her trail?

1943. Franco has blocked the path of the Jews fleeing Nazi oppression over the Pyrenees mountains. At the border crossing in a small village, Manel Grau, a civil servant with a Republican past, decides to go against the orders of his superiors and aid the refugees across the border, with the help of Juliana, a fellow inhabitant of the village, and Jérome a French smuggler. Between them, they will start a crusade to help as many Jews as they possibly can. It is then that Manel will find himself embroiled in a dangerous odyssey. One that will awaken in him and his wife, Mercè, old ghosts of the still-recent Spanish Civil War

The unexpected death of the director’s father is the starting point and the spur for an intense journey through hidden family stories, an in-depth investigation into the asbestos lobby, and a legal battle. A difficult personal experience uncovering a strangely silenced scandalous, global and current environmental and public health disaster.