In an idyllic, childlike world, the Bobs enjoy a peaceful life until the scanners appear—portals that open the path to adulthood.
While crossing them poses no challenge for the others, Bob is rejected time and again. Determined to do whatever it takes not to be left behind, he searches for a way to pass through the scanner, only to discover that the adult world he longed for is nothing like he had imagined.
During her first year at a conservative, elitist college residence, Marta is driven into a desperate search for the morning-after pill by the sexual taboos around her. As community pressure builds, her peers prepare an initiation ritual no one will forget.
Alicia (15) and Velia (8) wander between the complex world of adults and the remaining innocence of childhood. It’s Velia’s presence that protects Alicia from succumbing to the sadness that seems to surround her.
The story follows a family in decline in their home, where a hole has formed in the floor right in the center. They are going through an economic crisis that exposes their secrets: the father's betrayal, the mother's resentment, the daughter's silence, and the son's indifference. The hole grows, revealing that it is nothing more than the physical form of the void within the family.
In the early 2000s, in La Mancha, teenage would-be punk MAPI feels out of place in her conservative, tradition-bound surroundings. Her longing to grow up leads her to a clandestine Halloween party in an abandoned village, clashing with her family’s ritual of visiting the cemetery on All Saints’ Day. Caught between the profane and the ancestral, that night marks the beginning of a coming-of-age journey toward the construction of her own identity.
When Lourdes’s mother dies, a deafening silence settles over her home. The family avoids mourning, and her friends keep her company through leisure, parties, and alcohol. Lourdes tries to fill the void with external validation of her body—a body she mistreats because no one ever taught her how to nourish it.
Crónica del cansancio traces the history of access to housing, population control and the debt burden of the working class, taking us on a journey down through different generations to our present.
