Celia Riera

Ricard Camarena bases his cuisine on Valencia’s local vegetable production. His constant search for harmony between flavours has seduced the critics and crossed borders. Alongside Mari Carmen Bañuls, the brain behind the management of their restaurants, the two form an indissoluble team which have overcome great adversity to achieve success, vouched for by two Michelin stars and the recent National Gastronomy Prize. The couple are enjoying their most balanced moment. Balanced? The Covid-19 outbreak has thrown them up against a hitherto unheard-of challenge: to reopen their restaurants with the uncertainty of the “new normal”. Heedless of the pandemic, the vegetable garden continues its natural growth cycle and offers the chef a new horizon of flavours.

Manolita Chen se convirtió a mediados de los años ochenta en la primera madre transexual española que lograba adoptar. A través del documental nos relata aquel proceso, así como sus vivencias de mujer transgresora en una época en la que España todavía no estaba avanzada ni social ni legalmente. Descubrimos una vida repleta de amargura pero sin rencor de por medio, donde recuerda con nostalgia su faceta como empresaria y vedette, logrando paulatinamente integrarse en su pueblo natal, Arcos de la Frontera, donde actualmente disfruta del cariño y beneplácito de sus familiares y convecinos.

Harley Russell, 73, lives only on the tips he receives at his wacky store at Erick (Oklahoma) with his Mediocre Music Maker show. Ángel Delgadillo, 91, the last barber of Seligman (Arizona), continues shaving drivers who go out of the interstate highway to visit his town. Lowell Davis, more than 80, is the first inhabitant of Red Oak II (Missouri), a ghost town which he rebuilt through the restoration of its old houses. Three stories of perseverance and overcoming in what was once the road that connected the United States from East to West. Three survivors that managed to save the most well-known route in America.