Life in Gloria, a small village along the French route, is turned upside down when Pati, a high-flying executive in the midst of an existencial crisis, decides to radically change her life by settling there. Her goal: to transform her grandparents’ old house into a guesthouse for pilgrims seeking inner balance and spiritual growth. To bring her dream to life, she enlists Bertín, her best friend and a world-renowned, strictly vegan chef.
A Gloria de Arriba was always the magical setting of her childhood summers, a place where nature and the slow pace of the people filled existence with meaning. Now, Pati wants to reclaim those feeling and share them with every traveler looking for rest in her idyllic oasis of peace. However, she’ll soon discover that warm summer days fn’t last all year, that the pilgrims’ spiritual journey is anything but spiritual, that Bertín’s strictness goes far beyond veganism, and, above all, that living among the “wise and slow-paced” country folk is more stressful that the competitive world she just left behind.
The hell Pati find in A Gloria has many faces and names: old women who want to know everything, tavern regulars who claim to already know everything, a scheming and opportunistic couple (Paca and Waldo), a cranky and supposedly disable old man and, above all else, Lolo, a local brute who drives her crazy in every sense of the word, for better and for worse to her absolute misery and her ultimate happiness.
