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Synopsis

Valencia, 2025. Santillana Biotech is facing the worst crisis in its history: the press is speculating, investors are wavering, and the board — Ferran Santillana, Elena Blanco, Rubén Gallardo and researcher Marcos Blanco — is desperately searching for a way to salvage the company's image. The solution arrives with a name: Paulo Montaner, a consultant with a reputation for rescuing failing brands in record time.

What no one knows is that Paulo was familiar with the company long before Elena picked up the phone. His real objective is to infiltrate the ethics committee and seize control of Project Génesis: a consciousness-transfer technology developed in secret by Héctor Santillana, funded through the black market. When Héctor dies in circumstances the police record as suicide, Paulo begins weaving a web of manipulation that draws in everyone around him.

Marcos Blanco — brilliant researcher and Elena's brother — is the piece Paulo needs to unlock full access to the project. He seduces him, blackmails him, and finally makes him complicit in a crime neither of them can undo. Meanwhile, Elena is fighting her own battle against terminal cancer, kept alive by an experimental treatment that Clara and Marcos devise in secret, at an ethical cost no one is willing to name aloud. Ferran, holding the company together from the top, finds in Rubén an unexpected possibility of love.

Inspector Patricia Santoro and her partner, Officer Javier Correa, are connecting the threads: too many deaths, too many reports signed by the same doctor, a pattern that keeps pointing — without conclusive proof — to the same man. When the net tightens, Paulo is arrested at an airfield outside Castellón. But his arrest is, in fact, the final piece of a plan orchestrated from the shadows by Atenea Caballero, his grandmother: the true architect of everything that has happened since Paulo was a child.

What follows moves the story to Casablanca, where an international criminal network, a clandestine laboratory and a woman held captive for years are waiting to complete the final phase of a project that began thirty years earlier — on the afternoon a seven-year-old boy pushed his older brother into a pond and felt nothing as he watched him drown.

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