Maite Sandoval

A comical adventure story about two friends, Vitukas and Saulius, who decide to escape to the sea and become brave sailors.

A writer of crime stories discovers that reality is more criminal than the stories he writes. City of Valencia, Valencia (east to Spain). "Q" is a former journalist reconverted in a writer of crime novel books. Man of success respected by his fans, in real life Q is a cold-blooded psychopath and lonely man with any feeling or empathy by any other, with a bad relation with his younger brother Nacho and living with a compulsion to kill that eventually he translates to his novels, writing about it as fiction. After the excellent critics of the latest work about the murder of a taxi driver, Q's wish to write a new story with a more important victim make him to chose Ferrán Carretero, teacher of Applied Economics in the University of Valencia and former politician of long carrier, recently involved in a scandal of corruption. Kidnapping him a night and moving him to Q's old family house in the middle of City of Valencia's swamp outside the city, Q notes all that Carretero says during his captivity of some days, killing him finally. Carretero's missing calls the attention of La Puri, a powerful gypsy drug-lord in secret business with Carretero and Carretero's boss Isabel, an important politician in the Consellería of Valencia, and Isabel's assistant Vicent. Discovering that the media don't report about Carretero's murder and covering it as a job travel in the foreign, Q investigates Carretero's belongings, in special a key from the university bath locker where he finds evidences of a dark web of money launderer implying La Puri, Isabel, Vicent in addition to cops as Muñoz and Ricardo. Unaware from Q, La Puri sends her second hand and best man Falconetti to locate Carretero, at the same time she demands Isabel to close the deal for reconstructing all La Puri's neighborhood with new buildings to get more money and power. While Q discovers to be caught unintentionally between two ruthless forces, Falconetti's tracking of Carretero closes Q each time more, in a dangerous game of the mouse and the cat where no one is safe.

After he's injured in an accident, a disgraced CEO is forced to reunite--and move in--with his biological mother, a humble cleaning woman who helps him start to put his life back together. Fidel is a CEO from a company named Omnicron in the eye of the hurricane. One day, while having sex with his secretary on his desk, he suddenly suffers "penis captivus" and is trapped, unable to withdraw. The arrival of a medical team to take from there to the hospital is turned in a viral video by some office workers, and he's fired by the company, being rejected too by his girlfriend and adoptive family. After a year out of the public eye, Fidel decides to meet his biological mother, who gave him up for adoption after his birth, to rebuild his life. Virginia works as a cleaner in a hotel; going to meet her in the hotel bar, Fidel is bullied by a waiter who was his former intern, and he rages. Virginia arrives at the bar to find Fidel leaving in fury, and she tries to stop him. Frustrated and desperate, Fidel tries to commit suicide by throwing himself at a bus; he hits it violently and falls to the sidewalk. In the hospital Virginia learns that Fidel is suffering from amnesia, and since he can't remember where he lives, she decides to take him to her house, where she lives with her two lazy, unemployed sons, Elton and Maikel, Fidel's half-brothers. Discovering his real past on the Internet--he had fired Omnicron's 300 employees (including her own sons and friends of theirs), Virginia hides it from everyone, hoping it can be forgotten. Elton and Maikel, seeing Fidel as a stranger and a menace, expel Fidel from their home and he walks around the city until he arrives at the place where Virginia and her friends dance in the street and meets Maribel, the beautiful street-dancing teacher. Looking for a job for him, Virginia meets Luciano, Fidel's father, thinking that he could work in Luciano's supermarket, and learns of Fidel's talent for street-dancing. But when a headhunter looking for musical numbers for a TV talent show discovers Las Mamis ("The Mommies"), the musical group formed by Virginia and friends, he recognizes Fidel in the group and takes advantage of the situation, hoping to get large audiences in the program. Meanwhile, Virginia tries to save Fidel from the others, fearing their reaction if they realize who he really is. Fidel's memory starts to give signals of recovery; soon it will be time to deal with his stormy past. —Chockys