MEDIATHEK

Obertura (Overture): We are introduced to Pina, a ladybird who is smaller in size than normal ladybirds, and her story. Since we can’t see her, a re-enactment of her story begins. 

// Comer & Dormir (Eat & Sleep): Pina lives, as part of a ladybirds’ colony, in a lettuce plantation where ladybirds eat lettuce all day long. Pina is mocked by the others because she’s different. She’s been eating spinach, and wants to be big, transcend, achieve greatness. She’s heard humans talk about that. 

// El Sueño de Pina (Pina’s Dream): Pina has a dream for the first time in her life. Lumbago, the Lord of the Theatre, appears to her in her dreams. He tells her that she can achieve greatness when she finds the last theatre of the world, and performs a number full of magic. She’ll know she’s been successful when the magical fourth wall is broken. This wall can only be broken with a ‘final applause’. To do so, Pina must follow Lumbago’s theatre ticket. 

// El Último Teatro del Mundo (The Last Theatre of the World): Early the following morning, Pina leaves behind the lettuce plantation and heads out in search for the last theatre of the world.

// Quiero Saber (I Want to Know): Pina arrives at an empty field. There she decides to have a rest. Looking up at the stars she wonders how a star that appears so small can shine so bright. 

// Maga de la Luz (Magician of the Light): Turns out that one of the stars Pina saw was in fact a firefly named Maga (magician). Maga offers to help Pina in her quest. She’ll shed some light along the way, and introduce Pina to Cora, a profesional insects’ interpreter. Maga thinks they’ll need translation when they finally meet Lumbago. 

// Cora la Traductora (Cora the Interpreter): Pina and Maga arrive at Cora’s door on board the theatre ticket. Maga introduces Pina to Cora, and explains the situation. Cora presents her CV to Pina. We hear how Cora went from being a singer (she was an A-class child star) to developing an obsession with knitting (she makes all of the costumes herself) to being an insects’ interpreter. Cora stopped singing when in the middle of her biggest concert, she heard a cricket chirp. The chirping of the cricket paralyzed her, and from that moment she developed a cricket-phobia. 

// Fama (Fame): Cora calls Vicente, a talents agent and her former manager, because she thinks he’s the right person to help Pina get her applause. Vicente explains to Pina that what she needs in order to receive that applause is ‘fame’. 

// Fama Tele (Fame TV): Vicente sends Pina to a soap opera casting. Cora calls Aitor, a friend and fan of hers, to give them a ride to ‘Tele’. Turns out Pina doesn’t have the ‘right look’ for TV. 

// Las Cosas Me Hablan (Things Talk to Me): Aitor explains his ‘condition’ to Pina and Maga. He has the ability to re-use and make useful things from stuff others have thrown away. He makes things other people need, even without realizing it. 

// Fama Cine (Fame Movies): Since Pina wasn’t succesful on TV, Vicente sends Pina to a film audition. Again, this is in the opposite direction to where Lumbago’s ticket wants to take them. Again, Pina doesn’t perform well. 

// Diez en Uno (Ten in One): On their journey they meet Tino. Tino discovered at an early age that he could have conversations with himself, and had the ability to impersonate different characters. That’s how he passed the time in that small village where he grew up. Pina invites him to join them in their quest to find the last theatre of the world. 

// Fama YouTube (Fame YouTube): Vicente calls. Who needs film or TV in this post-information era? They upload a video. Because Pina is so small, it seems Cora is talking to herself in the video. This provokes a tirade of painful comments. This upsets Cora and Pina. Pina is feeling weary by now. 

// Si te Conectas (If You Connect): Aitor’s van breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Vico (a musician) and Isa (who interprets music through her body) arrive. It’s clear that Aitor and Vico know each other. Vico explains to the others how music moves people. Aitor invites Vico and Isa to join them in their journey. 

// Fama Revistas (Fame Magazines): This is Vicente’s last resort. When Pina reads the article that’s been written about her in a gossip magazine, she faces up to Vicente and says, “Enough!” 

// Mundo de Gigantes (World of Giants): Pina sings of how she used to dream of being big, but now in this world that’s full of giants she feels like she’ll be crushed any minute. Pina decides she’d rather be herself, and go back to the lettuce plantation. Cora realizes that Vicente is responsible for her cricket-phobia. Vicente wanted to make her ‘strong’. Now Cora gathers the courage to rid Vicente out of her life once and for all. She also wants to be herself, not the product of a fame industry. 

// Nuestra Canción (Our Song): It’s a cold night. It’s a farewell song. The journey’s ended. They didn’t find what they were looking for. They all sing and play together. They perform a number full of magic. They hear someone clapping. 

// Teatro (Theatre): The fourth wall breaks and Lumbago appears. He tells Pina that fame wasn’t what she needed to find. She needed all the others to perform that number full of magic. Theatre is not just buildings, sets, and machines. Theatre is people coming together and sharing with each other and others. Lumbago encourages them to keep telling their story and breaking more fourth walls. 

// Final (Finale): They start re-telling their story. Who knows… Maybe at the end there’ll be another audience willing to give them a final applause and break that fourth wall here and now.