El crack
A melancholic neo-noir about a weary private detective navigating Madrid's underworld to reunite a dying man with his estranged daughter, suffused with existential dread and urban decay.
Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies.
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