THE STEPMOTHER’S BOND

• Alexandra Jiménez (UNDER THERAPY, IDOL AFFAIR)
• Juan Diego Botto (THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, THE SUICIDE SQUAD)
• Ruth Gabriel (THE GOYA MURDERS, NUMBERED DAYS)

Yolanda Centeno, selected by Variety in 2021 as one of the ’10 Women Directors to Watch from Spain’ and with her short film, ZUGZWANG, selected in more than 300 festivals around the world, makes her feature debut with a risky and delicate film. With autobiographical touches, it denounces the legal loophole suffered by putative parents who take care of the children from their partner’s previous relationship as if they were their own, only to find themselves with no rights over them in the case of a breakup. A film that, in tone and theme, evokes the multi-Oscar winner KRAMMER VS. KRAMER and has a trio of top-level protagonists, the prolific Alexandra Jiménez (UNDER THERAPY, IDOL AFFAIR, KIKI, LOVE TO LOVE), the 7 times Goya nominee actor and director Juan Diego Botto (ON THE FRINGE) and the Goya winner Ruth Gabriel for NUMBERED DAYS.

For years, Paula has raised a six-year-old boy as if he were her own son, forming a special connection. However, the relationship with her partner is unstable, and their separation will put this bond at risk. Facing the pain of a possible goodbye, Paula struggles to maintain her place in the life of the child she loves deeply. This moving story explores the fragility of relationships in reconstituted families and the complexity of bonds that transcend genetics.