THE SPIDER - SYNOPSIS

THE SPIDER

-Marilyn 

LOG LINE: The Spider is a film set in Spain; an odd place of old world architecture and ultra modern blended and this story tells of humorous anarchy against the established Catholic tradition by an eclectic group of friends.

SYNOPSIS:  Juan a Barcelona artist paints skulls in bright colors for the day of the dead celebration in town. He lives harmoniously with his wife Ines and young daughter Fedora. Events all the way from Bilbo call them to join the change percolating in a place where striking modern architecture is erected sharply contrasting Spain’s traditional past. Isabel and Cortez two wealthy business executives who work for his father take a break from the business world of family tradition and escape to a new apartment and Isabel resurrects her love of stain glass art work. Isabel meets Erida an ex priest who hid as a man in seminary school and decides to quit finally and embark on a project with Isabel; Casa de la Arana Santo or House of the Holy Spider. This is to be a concert hall with new art work by Isabel and remodelling.

Maurice a Priest in a large Cathedral in town is tormented By Erida and Isabel’s practical jokes to help him leave his post; a bull is put into the cathedral for opening morning with a dummy of a priest killed by a lance. His own destiny follows suit as a demented exorcism nearly goes wrong and he escapes unscathed followed by more hilarious tribulations at the cathedral that prove to become constant irritations to the quiet, intensely focused Maurice.  

Meanwhile Isabel has great progress wither murals of the story of the Arana Santo in preparation for the opening of the new concert hall in the renovated and gutted old church now renamed with pews ripped out and replaced by concert theatre seats.

Erida enjoys a new lover and a new life away from the church and meets Maurice who she had an infatuation with in seminary school when he lectured to her class several times. A romantic tension exists between the two characters that builds through the story.   

The culmination of work results in a magical building created to house concerts that will illustrate the spider within in a deeper understanding that there is no god outside the self no preacher no sermons it is all inside revealed to the attendees by a glorious experience planned for them.  

Juan and Ines visit Bilbo for a holiday and he gets an art exhibit with the modern art center making his dream come true of more prominent exposure in the art world.  

Maurice spends time on his sabbatical from church at his sister’s the bee keeper. He finds himself happy with the prospect of helping her run the business after her divorce from her husband left her with it.  Maurice and Erida spend time together and she leaves Paulo her lover after he flirts with a model. Maurice decides to resign from the church and leaves his subordinate to run it. Rodriguez has his own challenges with it with a stigmata occurring in the congregation and a flood of broken pipes in the church leading him to take sick leave.

Success is found in the grand opening of the Casa de la Arana Santo and people gather from all over some who had strange experiences with spiders.

Maurice and Erida witness the final fate of the cathedral and find themselves in a new life together.