A Thief's Daughter (2019)

Barcelona (Catalonia's capital; north-east of Spain). Sara is a young girl who at her 22 years old is the perfect example of dame in distress: half-deaf of her right ear that she uses hearing aid, without mother and either an own house, she needs the help of the social services, living in social houses with another young ones in her same situation, where she has occasional friends sharing building. Mother of the six-months baby Joel, she cares alone with help of Ramón and Flora, owners of a bar where she works as one of the diverse part-time jobs she finds to get some money. At the same time that Joel's father Dani, a twenty-something guy who rejects any Sara's innuendos to back with her, returns from France where he was working as grape picker and looks another possible jobs to care his son, Sara tries to educate Martín, her troubled 8-years old little brother who lives in a child center. As if it not was enough, Sara's father Manuel, a convicted thief, is released from the prison and gets a job as moving employee, emptying foreclosed buildings of its furniture. Hoping to improve her chaotic and marginal life, Sara accepts to participate in a practices as kitchen's assistant of an important restaurant of the city during a few weeks, with option to have a permanent contract. Taking Manuel as a bad influence by his volatile character and his problems with alcohol, Sara files Manuel to get Martín's custody, a child who loves his father, causing that Martín rejects openly his older sister. Preparing Martín's First Communion and with an absolute feelings of sadness, isolation and loneliness all the day, Sara's attempts to be happy and create a stable life suffers a sudden and dramatic twist: Manuel announces Sara his intention to move to Jaén (Andalusia; south of Spain) in order to live with his aging mother, taking Martín with him.