Antonio Manuel, a ten-year-old boy, feels like a girl. In 1983, a decade still anchored in the animosity of Franco's repression, living inside a male body is a daily ordeal for him. Suppressing his desire for toys, clothes and ways to be considered as a girl bring him behavior problems in an educational system, lacking in pedagogy and in a home with parents and a sister who does not accept him as a girl.
His life is a constant struggle to be and pretend to be in a society that offers no response other than discrimination and rejection. Can he overcome the obstacles? Will he find someone with an open mind who understands him and helps him come up with a solution? Accompany Antonio Manuel in his fight to overcome the mental rigidity of a time when being "different" was synonymous with pariah.
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