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It’s morning. In a village far from the city, a humble family lives. Outside is Laia, eight years old, playing with her little doll. Suddenly a heartbreaking scream is heard, fearlessly he picks up his wrist and rushes to his home.

She enters the room and watches her father Benjamin holding firmly the hand of her mother Elena, a very pale and extremely thin woman who has been bedridden for months. The woman looks at her and takes the little girl’s little hand, Laia immediately approaches crying and hears the woman’s last words. Her mother reassured her with a few words from her stay in God’s paradise. Laia, holding on to her mother’s hand, begged her not to leave. The woman cannot hear her now, but with the last of her strength she embraces Laia and places the care of the little girl in Benjamin. The woman caresses Benjamin’s cheeks, smiles at her little one and drops her arm.

It’s late. Benjamin and Laia return after leaving some flowers in the cemetery. As they approach, Laia watches a beautiful figure woman waiting outside her house.

On the way home. Benjamin takes the hand of that woman, approaches Laia and presents her as Mirella his new wife, her perverse look frightens the little one. Mirella smiles at her, the little girl does not understand what is happening, but Benjamin tells her that Mirella will stay to take care of her. Laia manages to understand that that woman would replace her mother.

The first rays of sun appear. Benjamin gets ready to go to work as usual, says goodbye to Mirella and the little girl. When closing the door Mirella throws a glass of milk over Laia and sends to her room. The little girl disobeys Mirella, the woman gets angry and goes for the girl. Laia leaves the house quickly, after the escape she slips and is hung on a mound, held to a thin branch the little one screams for help, but the woman leaves the place. Laia can’t take it any-more, her little hands are too hurt by the weight of her body about to fall.