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Anita no perd el tren
SPAIN · 2001

Anita no perd el tren

Ventura Pons
job loss widow forbidden romance urban development second chances
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Synopsis

Fifty-something widow Anita loses her lifetime dream job as a cinema attendant when the new owner wants to tear down the old theater and build a trendy multiplex in its stead. Depressed at first, Anita finds comfort in watching the shirtless hunks on the theater's construction site. She befriends a married excavator operator, Antonio, and the two start their secret candlelit trysts in the site's o

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