Acting
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.
Actors and actresses rehearse William Shakespeare's play "As You Like It" in a theater: it tells the story of characters exiled in a beautiful forest, through their love stories, especially the one that unites Rosalinda with Orlando. Rosalinda is an active and lively woman who knows what she wants: the love of the noble but somewhat clumsy Orlando. To this end, she will disguise herself as a man and, together with her cousin Celia and the jester Petra, they will experience a series of adventures in the forest of Arden.
Marina is preparing an audition in a drastic moment of her life when she has to reconsider her vocation and sexual orientation. But the audition piece (separata), a crappy commercial script, will help to find herself.
On an imaginary island, Gloria Zamora, a working mother, unleashes her true nature as money and power enter her life, bringing an entire town under her control. Her daughter, Trinidad, narrates the story, judging her mother’s malice through her inner monologue. Meanwhile, in Spain, actress RocĂo Aldama, embodying Sara Montiel, chases her dream of success, as two worlds intertwine in a web of coincidences and misfortunes.
