
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.

Marielena is a young, working-class secretary—decent, deeply devoted to her family, and steadfast in her Christian values. However, love catches her off guard when she meets Luis Felipe and feels her heart stir. A newly qualified executive secretary, she sets out to find a job and ends up crossing paths with Luis Felipe again—who becomes her boss. As the days go by, she finds herself drawn to him in a way that proves impossible to hide.


A women meets a charming man and falls in love, they get married and start a family. As they age and have children, the man's becomes violent and abusive.

Rocio and Raphael are a young couple from a small Spanish town. Rocio must mourn the death of a relative for six months and is forbidden to see Raphael. Very much in love, they are frustrated by the old-fashioned customs of their village. When they can finally see each other, the two plan to soon marry. Unfortunately, the girl's grandfather dies and she must start the process of mourning all over again. This time Raphael begs her to rebel against her family and the villagers, but she refuses for fear of persecution. When Rocio has had enough of putting her own happiness aside, she decides to run away with Raphael in spite of what her family will say. Things do not go as planned, however, when yet another family member passes away.


Marriage of Vienna, theater director, and Daniel, a geriatric physician, is in crisis. Both cling to their professional activity to fill the void in their lives agonizing. Their worlds seem antagonistic, their needs, different. Account of the worst loneliness: loneliness in the company, and on promises unfulfilled desires can not be met, but it becomes a good excuse to continue living despite everything.


Almudena receives news of her teacher's death. No one has heard from her in a long time. This leads her to investigate and rethink her life.


Series of 13 chapters that narrates, humorously, the daily life of a family made up of Carmen, a separated woman and owner of a restaurant, her mother-in-law and her daughter. The tangled situations are complicated by the presence of Carmen's ex-husband, and Loli, a girl with a cheerful life and neighbor of the family.


Despite his youth, Daniel is not happy with his luck. He works in an auto repair shop and his job does not offer him any prospects of progress. Influenced by the large number of workers who are leaving Spain for Germany, he decides to emigrate as well.

