Esperanza de la Encarnación

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.

Rafaela, a teenager in a family with a housewife, inventor, and grandmother, navigates spooky mansions, sleepovers, and disabilities to mature as a group, individual, and poodle. She must save the world before her teenage years end and she can enter adulthood.

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.

Rafaela, a teenager in a family with a housewife, inventor, and grandmother, navigates spooky mansions, sleepovers, and disabilities to mature as a group, individual, and poodle. She must save the world before her teenage years end and she can enter adulthood.