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Vis a Vis (French: Vis a Vis, “Face to Face”), is a Spanish serial drama television series produced by Globomedia, initially for Spanish Network Antena 3 and later for Fox Spain. It premiered on 20 April 2015.
The series begins by focusing on Macarena Ferreiro, a young woman who is sent to prison for fiscal offenses and goes on to depict the plights of prison life and the corruption of law-enforcement bodies.
One year after Antena 3 cancelled the show, Fox Spain announced they had picked up the series for a third season, which premiered on April 23, 2018. It became the most watched pay TV in its timeslot. A fourth and final series premiered on December 3, 2018. Netflix also bought global streaming rights for the show.
Macarena Ferreiro Molina is a young and beautiful woman who falls in love with her boss and because of him commits several accounting manipulation and misappropriation crimes. She is accused of four tax crimes and consequently she is imprisoned at the Cruz del Sur Prison as a precautionary measure with very high bail set.
She has to face the emotional shock of what being in jail means to her, as well as the complicated relationship between the inmates; among them Zulema stands out as the most dangerous prisoner.
In prison Macarena realize the chance to survive the projected seven-years sentence she will likely receive if convicted depends on changing, evolving and becoming a very different person.
Meanwhile, in order to pay the bail, her family outside gets involved in finding a large sum of money hidden somewhere when in dispute with Zulema’s boyfriend, lead the Ferreiro to a terrible situation.
The series reflects the day-to-day life of prisoners and a group of officials in a penitentiary, and the transformation of a harmless woman, apparently incapable of doing harm, into a survivor who leaves her scruples aside.
The fight for survival thus marks the coexistence between the inmates, characterized by alliances, betrayals and acts of revenge both between inmates and between officials.
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Season four deals with the aftermath of Zulema (Najwa Nimri), Saray (Alba Flores) and Altagracia’s (Adriana Paz) escape. Altagracia, who used to terrorize the inmates as a prison guard, is now one of them. Zulema and Saray, who were once bestfriends, are now each other’s enemies.
Dr. Sandoval (Ramiro Blas) is the new Director of Cruz del Norte, who enforced violence to tame the inmates making the prison more dangerous than ever. We see Saray as a mother who would do anything for her child and Zulema, who would later be revealed to be a mother. Meanwhile, Sole (María Isabel Díaz Lago) is revealed to have Alzheimer’s disease.
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