Juan Carlos Medina
Alone, Silvia, a young women who suffers from a serious illness, is faced with the responsibility of watching and take care of her little daughter, Sara. After multiple attempts to find someone and with a broken family relationship, the young mother is torn between her decreased willingness to live and the constant of attention of her daughter . Considering what's best for Sara, Silvia forges a plan and decides to make a radical and desperate decision.
A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.
Set in Catalonia, Painless weaves two stories: in one, starting during the Spanish Civil War and running through to the '60s, an asylum attempts to rehabilitate children who feel no pain, by teaching them physical suffering. In the second, in the present time, a brilliant neurosurgeon who needs a bone marrow transplant, discovers this dark past when he searches for his biological parents.
