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Ramonet is a Gypsy who lives in the South of France. On the outskirts of a town in Ampurdan, Catalonia, he buys a second hand truck and sets out to recover the traditional nomadic life of the Gypsy people, the Manouche, which is the clan or ethnic group to which he belongs.
Nora, a married woman of forty with a secret, meets Nacho, a young biologist, on a plane and is unfaithful to her husband for the first time. This encounter forms the basis of a play of dependency and passion that Nora converts into paintings for her next exhibition.
Mariano Fortuny i Marsal was Spain's most internationally recognised artist in the 19th century. His realist painting paved the way for the advancing modernity of the Impressionists. He died unexpectedly in Rome at the young age of 36, drowned in his own blood.