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1976. City of Madrid, Madrid (center to Spain and country’s capital). On the early days of The Spanish Transition after General Franco’s death happened the previous year, family Olmedo moves to the big city from their natal town hoping to get money and a better life for everyone. They are Manolo, a farmer hired to work in the well-known Pegaso’s truck company; his wife and previous sister-in-law Candela, hired to work in the too well-known shopping mall Galerías Preciados; oldest son Pepe, a shy and stammer 20-years old young who feels as a stranger in the city unable to find job; older daughter Amparo, a 17 years-old teen forced to leave the town and her boyfriend Mateo to live in Madrid, who dreams to live in Paris working as flight attendant for Iberia’s flying company; the child Rafael “Rafi”, the only one son of Manolo and Candela after Candela’s first husband (father of Pepe and Amparo) left them; a finally Fermín, Candela’s aging and senile father with troubles of memory. …
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In 1943, the year in which the first A-bomb was built, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD, a substance that was to become an A-bomb of the mind. Fractions of a milligram are enough to turn our framework of time and space upside down. The story of a drug – its discovery in the Basel chemistry lab, the first experiments by Albert Hofmann on himself, the 1950s experiments of the psychiatrists, the consciousness researchers, the artists. Could it actually be possible to find a path to the core of our human existence by means of a chemical? Spirituality at the flick of a switch? Do the enigmatic effects of this drug really help us to better understand the human soul? Could LSD be an instrument of contemporary psychiatry? Of modern brain research?
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