¡Hola, desconocido!

On Spain's Costa Blanca, a girl writes notes, sticks them in bottles, and tosses the bottles into the sea: "Hello, Stranger! I'm Paula and I'm 10." Fernando, a solitary man of 59, finds one of the bottles and writes to Paula. A correspondence ensues in which she tells him about her personal life (her father dead, her mother remarried, her friend gone to Algeria) ; he tells her he's not happy. Fernando's wife asks who the girl is in a photo on his desk. He makes up a story. Paula calls him ("How did you get this number?"), her mother wants to get rid of her dog, she'd like to meet Fernando. Where is this leading?

Xabier Elorriaga

Fernando

Amanda Cascajosa

Paula

• Javier RebolloDirector · Writer
• Lola MayoWriter

Release date

January 1, 1998

Status

Released

Original language

Spanish

Runtime

25m