There are many causes of poverty -- birth, bad luck, bad choices, mistrust of one's neighbors, or a combination of these. All of these factors have conspired to place María (Ana Fernández ) in a miserable life. María, the youngest of four children, has moved to an unnamed city in southern Spain to escape the poverty and illiteracy of her parents' rural town -- becoming estranged from her family in the process.As one of the countless workers living in the city slums, María has nothing but contempt for her mother and her past, even though she has not done better with her life. But when María's father (a bully who keeps María from attending college and treats her mother like property) is hospitalized in the city and her mother is forced to stay in María's apartment for some weeks, María is forced to appreciate her mother and face her own shortcomings.
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