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Miss Marte
"People think that a full life is when many things happen to you, but I believe that living a full life is when you know what you're missing", 1993. Mai, a young girl with a two-year-old daughter, arrives at a seaside town and turns it upside-down. She makes friends straight away, she meets Santi and it's love at first sight, and one year later their wedding ends in tragedy, when her daughter mysteriously disappears on the night of the celebrations. 2019, journalist Berta Soneira is making a documentary about the events of 25 years ago, and she interviews the people who remember them, writing the story of a day that changed everybody's lives. "Manuel Jabois creates a literary world that gives the footnotes of life a richness and complexity." Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Cultural