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Leopoldo From the Bar
Leopoldo, an old man from the center of Madrid, is left completely alone when the bar that he used to visit on a daily basis for the last 12 years, and only human contact in his life, shuts down. The loneliness he has been avoiding rushes back; but comes in the form of Mauricio. A giant pigeon with verbal diarrhea that will try to talk Leopoldo into accepting his fate. Death? No: Something a bit more surprising.
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Leopoldo, an old man from the center of Madrid, is left completely alone when the bar that he used to visit on a daily basis for the last 12 years, and only human contact in his life, shuts down. The loneliness he has been avoiding rushes back; but comes in the form of Mauricio. A giant pigeon with verbal diarrhea that will try to talk Leopoldo into accepting his fate. Death? No: Something a bit more surprising.
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