Alba is a Spanish drama series inspired by the blockbuster Turkish TV series, Fatmagul. It deals with the various events that take place after Alba- a young girl is raped by four influential men.
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Plot summary
Alba and Bruno started dating each other after they crossed paths in Madrid. Interestingly, they belong to the same town where everyone knows each other; thus, they know each other too.
After a long year of studies, both Alba and Bruno return to their town for the summer break. Bego, Alba’s friend, insists that they go partying at Kevin’s Pub. Similarly, Bruno and his friends Jacobo, Ruben, and Hugo also visit Kevin’s Pub.
Bruno reaches late as he is helping his aunt, Clara, with her fruit shop. While Alba and Bego are having a good time in Kevin’s Pub. When Bruno reaches, his friends convince him to do drugs.
These drugs are sold by Tirso, a local boy from Atlantica who also happens to be Alba’s ex-boyfriend. Unfortunately, he does not take Alba’s relationship with Bruno sportingly and misbehaves with Alba. Later he apologizes for it.
Bruno gets too high and cannot make it to the party. Alba is waiting for him when a group of men misbehave with her in the pub. It was then that someone sneaked a drug into her drink without her noticing.
Alba loses her sense and leaves the pub to go home. She fails to recognize the way to her house when she realizes that she is being followed by three men. These men were Jacobo, Ruben, and Hugo.
Unfortunately, the men take advantage of Alba, drug her, and rape her. They also film the heinous act. The next morning, Alba wakes up on the beach. She realizes that something horrible has happened to her and immediately reports it to the police.
The police interrogate her and make her answer the same question, again and again, irritating an already traumatized Alba. When Bruno tells his friends about Alba’s rape, they realize that they raped their buddy’s girlfriend.
However, they do not say a word. As Alba was drugged, she does not remember anything from the night. She does not remember who the rapists were and where the incident took place. However, the police keep asking the same question that only introspects Alba’s character.
After a while, Alba remembers the place she was raped and that she saw a tattoo on one of the rapist’s arms. While reaching the area, Alba breaks down while her sister-in-law, Miriam, finds Ruben’s ring lying.
She trades the ring to Mercedes, Ruben’s mother, in exchange for money. Mercedes further takes the issue to Victor, her father-in-law.
Victor, an already ill old man, arranges for the safety of his grandson and his friends. Eloy, his consultant lawyer, helps him in doing this. Unfortunately, Victor dies while having trouble breathing, and Mercedes watches him die.
Now, the highest shares of the company are inherited by Mercedes. This angers and comes as a shock to the family. But Mercedes finally feels powerful after being ignored all her life for being a woman. But to save her son, she goes to unlimited extents.
Bruno understands the hint when Alba describes the tattoo from her memory. He realizes that his friend Hugo has the tattoo. When he confronts him, Jacobo accepts that they raped his girlfriend but also tricked Bruno into believing that he is also among the rapists.
This leaves Bruno devastated. He expresses his wish to report it, but he is threatened by a masked man sent by the Entrerrios’. Thus, to save his and Alba’s family, Bruno keeps quiet but can’t accept the truth.
Jacobo and Ruben go on guiltlessly with their life, but Hugo, an army officer, can’t accept the heinous crime he committed. He sends a video with an apology to Alba. Upon knowing who her rapists were and finding her boyfriend to be one of them, Alba breaks down.
Neglecting major threats and events, Alba takes the video to Teniente Gener, who’s handling her case, leading to the arrest of all four men.
Following the trial, Alba faces much gender-related violence and social intolerance, but she stands firm on her case and fights it till the end. In the process, Alba also finds out that Bruno did not rape her, and their relationship starts to mend.
The court ruled in favour of Alba and sentenced the rapists to prison. However, Mercedes’ desperate measures to save her son from going to prison led to a major setback, and the trial had to be announced as a “mistrial.”
Alba (2022) ending explained in detail: (Chapter 13)
Why did Ruben kidnap Alba?
Ruben proves to be reckless among the four friends. He is a racist, sexist, and repeated sex offender who fails to believe the truth of being a rapist.
In the end, he calls Alba a liar who ruined his life and led Hugo to commit suicide. Moreover, he is angered after his girlfriend Sandra confronts him.
After always being the crazy guy, he kidnaps Alba to kill her. He brings her to an old factory and ties her up under gunpoint.
Ruben calls Jacobo, and both of them threaten Alba to kill her. However, Alba’s bravery leads Jacobo to shake up, and he fails to pull the trigger.
Was justice served for Alba?
Meanwhile, Bruno and Cesar follow the location of the phone that Bruno keeps in Jacobo’s pockets before he leaves. They reach just on time before the boys can shoot Alba.
Ruben attempts to flee, but Cesar shoots him, and he is injured. After the civil guard arrives, Jacobo is arrested too.
Upon investigations, police found the souvenir box in Jacobo’s house that proved him to be a repeated rape offender.
After all this, Alba and Bruno move on in life looking forward to a new beginning under a new sunrise.
Did Mercedes win against her family?
Mercedes proves to be the smartest one after copying everything that was stored in Victor’s secret device, documents that could ruin the family’s reputation.
Thus, after Ivan, Mariano, and Eloy threaten her and compel her to sell her shares, she exposes them all.
All Mercedes wanted was to save her son, but that’s what she couldn’t do. Her son Ruben lays on the bed, injured and awaiting arrest.
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