The new Prime Video series The House Of The Spirits is the latest adaptation of Isabel Allende’s sprawling debut novel, which covers four generations of the Trueba family, interacting with historic events in Chile’s history, mixed with a fair amount of spiritual storytelling.
Opening Shot: A woman walks up to a mansion whose outside is overgrown with vines. When she walks in, she sees it in pristine condition.
The Gist: The woman walking through the mansion (Rochi Hernández) is injured, having escaped from a traumatic situation. She sees the ghost of her grandmother, Clara del Valle (Dolores Fonzi). She finds a trunk full of notebooks, which were Rosa’s journals, documentation of her life starting in the 1920s, when Clara (Francesca Turco) was just a child. The woman is determined to write a book based on those journals.
We then flash back to the time of Clara’s first journal entries. At
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