In Family I Trust, a Spanish romantic-comedy film adapted from a novel by Laura Norton and directed by Patricia Font, is an easy-to-watch movie that will bring smiles to your face. This heartwarming film tells the story of a talented young architect named Bea, played by Clara Lago, who catches her partner and colleague Viktor, portrayed by Fernando Guallar, cheating on her. Heartbroken, Bea decides to retreat to her family in a village alongside the Spanish seaside.
Synopsis:
When Bea and her team win a significant hotel project, led by her boyfriend Viktor, they celebrate with a night of drinking at a bar. While they’re having fun, they encounter a famous journalist named Rebecca Ramos, one of Viktor’s favorite celebrities. While drunk, Viktor challenges Bea to introduce herself to Rebecca and say that she is the second person Viktor would sleep with. In a drunken stupor, Bea manages to do it.
The next day, Viktor proposes to Bea out of the blue, leaving her confused, but happy. When she gets to work, she realizes that everyone in the office is looking at her strangely. It turns out that a news broadcast has revealed a video of Viktor and Rebecca performing an indecent act. Angrily, Bea slaps Viktor in the middle of their meeting and quits her job. She packs up all her belongings and leaves for the train station to go to her parents’ home in Santa Clara.
When she arrives in her hometown, Bea is frustrated and angry. She enters a cafe where she meets a man named Diego, and they share a bottle of beer. However, Bea leaves the cafe in anger. Outside, she is picked up by her sister, Irene, and her nephew, Fin.
Once she gets home, her family attempts to offer her moral support by encouraging her to discuss her heartbreak, but she refuses to do so. That night, her family has dinner together. During dinner, Angela, Bea’s mother, reveals that she has only one year left to live due to an illness. Although all her children are devastated, Angela doesn’t want them to be sad. Instead, she wants them to continue living their lives happily. Angela also encourages Bea to pursue her dream of building a treehouse.
The next day, Bea starts working on her dream with her mother and sister, Debora. During the building process, it is revealed that all of Bea’s siblings have problems of their own. For instance, Irene, who is the town mayor, is dealing with issues related to the Biomass program, which has led to her being heavily criticized by the town’s residents. Similarly, Debora struggles to deal with her dwarf son, while Bea’s younger brother comes out as gay.
Bea then meets Diego again, who turns out to be a wealthy widower with a daughter. Diego asks Bea to create a treehouse for his grieving daughter. This is where the seeds of love between Bea and Diego begin to blossom. They try to deny their feelings, but they fail to do so. However, one day Viktor arrives, asking Bea to come back to him. What will Bea choose?
Conclusion:
In Family I Trust is a must-watch for those who want a heartwarming family movie that showcases the triumph of love and familial bonds. It features a talented cast delivering natural and entertaining performances, making it an enjoyable watch for a weekend or any rainy day. The movie explores the themes of heartbreak, family, love, and laughter, with a good amount of complexities and sentence variations that make for great storytelling.
