La educación del monstruo

We always think the monster is someone else: a stranger who abducts a little girl in a white car, a man who attacks on a deserted street... What happens when we discover the monster we all carry within us? Matilde is the devoted and overprotective mother of a five-year-old boy. An involuntary memory will be the trigger that leads her to search for the reason behind this overprotection, which she understands is becoming increasingly harmful to her son and to herself. This is also the story of Matilde's mother, Águeda, a young woman who emigrated to Germany with her family in 1963 and lived under the same roof with a man and his teenage son, a quiet boy who learned the language of humiliation far too soon. In this search, Matilde will return to her childhood, to Valladolid in the 1970s, and to her school, run by Sister Olvido. The city is gripped by a series of kidnappings and rapes of girls that sow panic while an ominous silence settles over families.