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Daniel’s life, a prestigious architect,  has been a series of successes that ends on his thirty birthday, when his fiancée leaves him and it seems his future perfect life is going to crash.

Lost, he begins to listen to a disc that a friend from University gave him. The singer is Eva Winter and the title is “Ojalá estuvieras aquí” (“Wish you where here”), and it seems like this disc echo inside him. For his surprise, is as if every song told something about him.

One of them, “Flores en la niebla” (Flowers in the snow), has as the main character a young architect who, after breaking up with his girlfriends, crosses the border to follow a mysterious woman who seems to be the same singer.

Without saying anything, Daniel decides to do something: he flees to Paris , where Eva Winter lives.

While he discovers his own identity – and maybe the love of his live –, he begins to suspect that the coincidence between the songs in “Ojalá estuvieras aquí” and his own live are not a coincidence. After meeting the singer, another person will appear, and a secret will emerge; a secret that will change everything.

Andy Rodriguez, former manager of rock bands that have founded Jukebox consulting agency, comes to a company that is in a deep crisis. In particular, the sales department is mired in a collective depression because of the bad results achieved in the last year.

To the surprise of all staff, the first step of Andy is installed in the boardroom a brand new jukebox with the big hits from the 60's, 70's and 80's, Elvis Presley, Dire Straits, to Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen. At first the manager stressed the company may have made a mistake and is about to fire the consultant, but Andy will explain what their approach: given that success is a state of mind, his mission is to raise the morale of the troops doing daily work incorporating the philosophy of the greatest hits of all time.

To this end, each morning will bring together executives in the boardroom and hear one of these hits and then extract the message and comment on what could have practical applications in the enterprise. After “the theme of the day” will sound at various times of the day for everyone to remember what the motto to follow.

The goal is that within fifteen days of “Rock business' success music to sound again in the company and its employees feel convinced stars get big hits.

The Alhambra has been seized by an Islamist group. They ask for the recovery of Al-Andalus. The leader of the group is said to be a descendant of Fernando Valor, who in the XVI century leaded the rebellion at the Alpujarras. His name is Aben Umeya. The alarm spreads throw the country and the Inteligence National Centre is mobilized. But this is just the beginning. They announce that they have places a nuclear bomb in La Alhambra. Rumours spread: a book has disapeared from the Sacromonte Abey. There is a man known as the new mesias that is gathering people against Islamists. Granada is terrorized by several murders that seem to seeck a confrontation between religions.

What would happen? Would police be able to stop the bomb? Would they find out who is the murderer?

First, we have Isabel, a fourteen years old girl that knows for sure that she has to marry a young man from Sevilla. She has seen him on a dream, a dream where she can see how he writes a poem. As a game, Isabel and other friends writes letters to unknown men from a magazine. Isabel writes to the only man from Sevilla, Anselmo, saying she is eighteen. And there is also Anselmo, a twenty-nine years old man who has not had an easy life, but seems to begin a new life: he has got engaged to an older and rich woman. But he is not sure this is the life he is looking for. He is always playing with women, and some of them decide to take revenge: they write his name in a magazine, looking for love. He first doesn’t understand why he receives so many love letters, but when he finds the ones written by Isabel, he begins to fall really in love.

Would they be able to find their destinies?

To understand better the meaning of things and to explain the world to her daughter, this is what Joana does whilst cleaning up the beach with a tractor, collecting secrets brought by the sea and filling with thoughts the notebook of her life.

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