Movistar + produces, in collaboration with the Galician production company Portocabo, suspense series ‘Rapa’ hand in hand from the same creative team from the successful ‘Hierro’, the most watched series of 2021 on Movistar +.
Created by Pepe Coira and Fran Araújo and directed by Jorge Coira, with Alfonso Blanco (Portocabo) in executive production, the series of six 50 minute episodes begin to his filming in Galicia in September and will be released in 2022. The filming will be done entirely in Galicia, in the towns of Cedeira and Ferrol.
The plot begins with the murder of the mayor of a Galician town, which will lead to an investigation of the crime, with Tomás, the character played by Javier Chamber (‘Sentimental’, ‘Vota Juan’, ‘Vamos Juan’), the only witness to the events.
Soon we will announce the rest of the protagonists of the series.
Synopsis
To Capelada. An ancient land, with high cliffs above the sea, where horses live free. Except one day: that of the rapa das bestas. The rapa it is a tradition that synthesizes the beauty and the wildness of a territory that is generally quiet, but which is going to be the scene of a crime. Searching for the murderer of Amparo Seoane, the town’s mayor, will be the common objective of Tomás – a frustrated teacher – and Maite, a sergeant of the Civil Guard. And it will become something more: a good reason to live.
The series according to its creators
«Rapa is a thriller. It is the story of a crime, and of the reasons why someone kills and why someone investigates. It is a story that brings together a series of characters that we were attracted to meet: the frustrated teacher who feels like a stimulus to have witnessed a murder; the sergeant of the judiciary who is in his territory when he is hunting the culprit; the men and women involved, a human group in which it is not easy to distinguish who is guilty and who is the victim.
We think the story for a magical place, where sea and land, wind and calm intermingle, the territory that goes from the Sierra da Capelada, on the Atlantic coast, to Ferrol. A place where everything can change around every corner ».
Pepe Coira and Fran Araújo