Almendra

Yunjae is sixteen years old, at the age of overflowing emotions, love and rage. But the tonsils in her brain are small, smaller than an almond, and as a consequence, Yunjae is unable to feel anything. Educated by his mother and grandmother, he learns to identify the emotions of others and to fake moods so as not to stand out in a world that will soon dismiss him as strange. "If your interlocutor cries, you narrow your eyes, lower your head and give him a gentle pat on the back," says his mother. Thus he builds an apparent normality that is shattered the day a psychopath attacks both women in the street. Since then, Yunjae must learn to live alone, without the desire to shed a tear, without sadness or fear or happiness. Unlikely people reach out to Yunjae: an old friend of his mother, a girl capable of breaking certainties, and even a bully with more affinity than expected. The three of them will break the loneliness of the protagonist of Almendra.