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The Alcantara family has bought their first television and are looking forward to the arrival of the device and its installation. Ines has some birth control pills from Paris that she will keep on her bedside table. Herminia will take them by mistake and give them to Carlos to cure his cold. Carlos does not improve and decides to notify the doctor. The doctor discovers that the pills Carlos has taken are birth control pills. Mercedes confronts Ines for her behavior and tells her that those pills give matrix cancer and that she can die. Carlos hears the whole conversation. Inés finds a note written by Carlos in which he says that how he is going to die for having ingested Inés's pills has decided to flee and leave the little money he has for his sister to operate in America. Mercedes first of all asks for calm, neither Antonio nor Herminia should know. No one knows where he can find Carlos. Cervan says he has seen Carlos in the truck. Toni approaches the field and talks to his little brother, telling him the whole truth and taking him back home. Finally, the Alcantara family congregate around the television to follow the Eurovision festival. The winner is Massiel with her "La, la, la". Antonio Alcantara never heard of the incident.
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Carlos is going to make the first communion. This event comes at a bad economic time for your family. In Paris, May 68 explodes. The images of the news show fulfilled information of those days, to the fright of Herminia, who already believes that any day also here something similar will happen. So much is his fear that he will store food for the day the revolution arrives here. Carlos discovers that the sky of Islam is full of pipes, candies, chocolates and table football and, therefore, is much more fun than that of Christianity, so he will consider not making communion, becoming a Muslim. Finally, Carlos will discover in time that the Quran and ham are incompatible, so that he will end up making communion. Inés has the opportunity to go to Paris by bus. But given the economic needs of his parents, he would prefer to give the money for Carlos's communion than to know Paris. Finally, Herminia fears that, with age, her family will send her to a residence, to an asylum as was said in 1968, but she will soon understand that her fears are unfounded.
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They say that the summer of '68 was the summer of love. In Spain and specifically in the neighborhood of the Alcantara family, love was fine for Jackie Kennedy and Onassis, newly married that August, but they had other important things to worry about. For starters, Toni, the first-born of the family was going to be the first university Alcantara and that required a series of expenses that had to be assumed. Of course the boy seemed to have his head in something else, specifically in the skirts of a girl who caused more than a dangerous confusion with the license plate. Carlos, the boy, continued to grow up to the despair of his mother who did not know where they were going to get money to make ends meet. And if this were not enough Mercedes has a lack. The threat of a new mouth in the family can ruin everyone's dreams. And is that life does not seem fair to some, or so Mercedes thinks when compared to that Jacky Kennedy of his own age and yet so young and so beautiful.
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October 1968. Toni Alcántara is about to become the first university student of the family. His parents and grandmother are overflowing with pride. Ines, the older sister, is resentful; He had to leave school to get work and has not had the opportunities of his brother. Little Carlos does not share the family euphoria either. The television campaign of "We Count on You" has reached the soul and lives obsessed with becoming a great athlete. Mercedes, in addition to being proud of the success of her son, lives pending the arrival of her first automatic washing machine, although the grandmother, eternally opposed to innovations, insists that she will continue to wash by hand. What should have been a weekend of family celebrations turns into a nightmare when Carlos discovers the contents of a package that his father had brought to the house. The package, delivered to Antonio by a friend to keep it over the weekend, contains hundreds of anti-Franco pamphlets. In the climate of fear that existed at that time, the pamphlets are a time bomb that Antonio Alcántara can not get rid of despite his comic efforts over three days of growing paranoia.
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Antonio wants to surprise Mercedes this holiday with an ineseperated gift: He wants to take her to see the sea. However the budget does not arrive to cover the expenses of that trip and opts for another, this cheaper, to the Monasterio de Piedra, where there is also a lot of water by the way. The problem is to get the money to pay for it and there is only one way to do it: leave that same afternoon to charge a village in the mountains. A client has promised to pay them a commission if they go there. Antonio, accompanied by Desi, take a borrowed car and they go to the mountains. But on the way back they are surprised by a strong blizzard and the car breaks down in a desolate place where no living soul passes. The proximity of the coming of the three wises men causes great anxiety in Carlos and his friends. On the one hand there is the difficulty of making the letter to their majesties. With as much toy as they announce on TV, choosing only three, as their parents have demanded, has become an impossible mission. On the other, and when they finally decide, Josete has a terrible annoyance to make them: The kings are the parents. Carlos and Luis do not believe at first but soon they begin to doubt and fall into dismay. But an unexpected discovery convinces them of the opposite: The real wise men have taken refuge in their truck.
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A series of minor earthquakes, which begin in Andalusia and then spread throughout the Peninsula, sow terror among the population and, much as the authorities try to reassure public opinion, it is increasingly uneasy. To that is added that the State of Exception continues and that, in those days, a medical student named Enrique Ruano dies in strange circumstances. On the other hand, 1969 was the golden age of film clubs, hence Don Eugenio set up one in the parish and, to inaugurate it, he decided to project a film that made history in those days: 'The spring of the maiden', by Ingmar Bergman, but putting it without any of the cuts imposed by censorship, that is, just as it could be seen in any democratic country. Don Pablo celebrates his silver wedding and gives a small party, inviting Antonio and Mercedes, but she refuses to go since Don Pablo a day before has insinuated Mercedes. Carlos, who believes that Mayka is interested in him, decides to invite her to the movies, and there to kiss her. Toni and Marta, in a very tense days in which the police raided the students, will spend moments of intimacy, in which she will make clear the type of relationship she wants to have with him.
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Ines's decision not to return from London has shocked the family. Antonio and Mercedes begin to make arrangements to get their return; telegrams, interrogations to Nieves, his companion in London, and consultations at the Ministry, which have no effect. Meanwhile, Ines is delighted with life in London. The freedom of customs of the city and its relationship with Mike make of his days in England the happiest of his life. When finally they receive news of Inés, Antonio reacts so aggressively that he only gets his daughter to confirm his decision not to return and hang up the phone. Broken communication, Mercedes decides to seek help in Eugenio, the parish priest of the neighborhood. Antonio, determined to get Ines back, tries to buy a plane ticket to go to look for her in London. However, his steps are also leading him to a change of attitude in his relationship with his daughter. In parallel, Carlos and his friends decided to set up a newspaper to denounce the injustices that live in the school. It will be a secret and clandestine newspaper but the consequences of its information exceed its initial intentions and get into a mess. Toni lives difficult moments in her relationship with Marta. Your friend has disappeared. He does not find her in the Faculty, neither in his house nor in that of his friends. Desperate, he shows up at Marta's house to stand guard at the door and find out what his friend is hiding.
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The Alcantara and the Altamira try to arrange a quick and discreet wedding between Toni and Marta. For this they organize a meeting at the Altamira house where the whole matter is clear and, in addition, they indicate a date for the celebration in a discreet chapel of the mountain range. The two families have different social positions, but the initial rejection becomes understanding because they will have a grandchild in common. Marta, for her part, remains confused and does not know what to do, while Toni agrees with the wedding plans. Carlos thinks that his brothers are going to have children and, logically, they will marry for it. It seems to him that in Spain everything is marriage and pregnancy and he decides to stay single and live with his friends in a ranch without women.
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Marta continues to think about the future of her pregnancy, although everyone around her pushes her to marry in a discreet ceremony with Toni. The young woman does not want to get married and she must also worry because the police are practicing arrests and she, like her colleagues, can be in the crosshairs of the Social Political Brigade. In 1969, the biggest mystery for a child was knowing where children came from. Carlos thinks that children can come to kiss a girl and, in addition, he has news that his brothers and, also, his grandmother are going to have children. Tying off, Carlos and Luis think that Mayka and Fatima have gotten pregnant because they kissed them.
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The arrest of Toni and Marta has plunged the Alcántara family into chaos. Antonio and Mercedes are looking for ways to get their son out of prison, either through contacts with influence, or through the intervention of the priest Eugenio, who suggests contacting members of the Felipe (popular liberation front). This possibility alerts Herminia and Mercedes, who fear that establishing relationships with anti-Francoists can only harm Toni's precarious situation. Meanwhile, the boy remains incommunicado in the dependencies of the DGS. When the family is most desperate, Marta is released, thanks to the intervention of her father, undersecretary of Agriculture. The young woman promises to intercede to get her father to intervene and get Toni's release. Carlos and his gang, deeply impressed by the arrest of Toni, devise a plan to get him free: The abduction of Dona Carmen Polo. The presence of the woman in the neighborhood to inaugurate a nursery school will give them the opportunity to approach her and, by means of a bait (some plastic collars bought from Cervan), try to take her to her truck. Carlos proposes to his friends to later exchange Franco's wife for his brother.
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Antonio Alcántara Barbadillo
Mercedes Fernández López
Herminia López Vidal
Toni
Carlos Alcántara Fernández
Carlos Alcántara Fernández
Ramón
Josete
Paquita Ramos
Pili