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La risa de las mujeres muertas
Julio Pretel, a soloist from Seville, has a strange encounter with a mysterious woman in the beautiful Alcazar of Seville. Then the girl disappears before his eyes, vanishing into thin air. Hallucination? A paranormal experience? A leap in time?
Eager to know what really happened, Julio finds similarities between the woman he saw (or believed to see) ... and a princess who lived in that same Alcazar in Seville nine hundred years before! The musician begins an obsessive search in the attempt to erase the borders of time. Gradually, he will learbn about the personality of an extraordinary woman, Buthayna, a poetess, princess of Seville and slave of the Almoravids. A woman trapped, just like him, in a story where the plausible and the impossible appear to be the same one thing.
In the meantime, a former lover gets in his way, and what they both believed a long-forgotten love story starts again.
"The laughter of the dead women” raises the issue of the boundaries between reality and fiction, and the need to recover our history, especially the people unjustly forgotten, as the only way to know who we really are.