Directors: Silvia Quer
Script: Maite Carranza, Teresa Vilardell
Photography:Xavier Gil
Editor: Jordi Puig
Sound: Xavier Berruezo, Kiku Vidal
Music: Javier Navarrete
Casting: Silvia Quer
Principal Cast: Mercè Arànega, Julio Manrique, Bernat Quintana, Xavier Elorriaga, Teresa Vallicrosa
Producer: (TVC) Elisa Plaza
Executive Producer: Lluis Ferrando
Production: Massa d'Or Produccions for Televisiò de Catalunya
Distribution: Televisiò de Catalunya
First Broadcast: 21.01.2001, 22:20 TVC
FIPA d'Or for Best Actress: Mercè Arànega FIPA 2001
Selected Filmography Mercè Arànega: En brazos de la mujer madura, 1996; El persué de tot plegat, 1995; Cucarachas, 1993; la femme et le pantin, 1990.
A well-known artist sacrifices her career and marriage to help her son, crippled in an accident, lead a normal life again. Contrary to expectations her son is cured. But when he grows up his gratitude to her threatens to destroy their relationship and she asks him to leave. Valèria is not a mawkish tearjerker, however, but a melodrama in the best sense: moving, sentimental, but never kitschy. Sílvia Quer tells the story in suspenseful scenes of compelling beauty. On account of its measured tempo and cultural independence, this Catalan TV movie can hold its own against large English and American productions.