Wed, Sep 12, 2001
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.
Wed, Sep 19, 2001
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.
Wed, Oct 10, 2001
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.
Wed, Oct 24, 2001
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.