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SANTOS The Book of Alina is a modern supernatural drama about inheritance identity and power. It follows a young woman pulled between family faith and the unseen world that has been waiting for her to wake up. When Alina Montes unexpectedly inherits her family's Botanica she steps into a legacy she never asked for and cannot escape. The Botanica is more than a spiritual shop. It breathes. It hums. It remembers. It is a place where prayers and secrets mix where energy shifts the air and where the line between the living and the dead is always thin. Her mother a polished politician and devoted believer sees the Botanica as a danger to her reputation and career. To her faith is something to control not something to live. Alina's cousin sees the Botanica differently. Beautiful ambitious and ruthless she believes it belongs to her. She is willing to turn family into an enemy to get it. Alina finds herself standing between two women who both want to decide who she is. But the Botanica has its own plans. Her closest friends are the only people she can trust. Mateo can see and hear spirits that move through the city voices that echo from the past into the present. Tesen can sense things before they happen reading energy and danger in the space around her like instinct. Together they uncover that the Botanica is not just Alina's inheritance. It is a gate to something ancient powerful and alive. As Alina starts to unlock her connection to this power she learns the truth about her bloodline. She is a Santera part of a tradition her mother worked her entire life to bury. The realization forces Alina to choose between the world she grew up in and the one that calls to her through the walls of the Botanica. Then Michael enters her life. A journalist with a camera a story and his own secrets. He is drawn to Alina but his curiosity runs deeper than attraction. He is looking for something hidden in her world and his obsession might destroy them both. The first fourteen episodes follow Alina's awakening as she begins to see what others cannot. The more she learns about the Botanica the more she realizes her family has been protecting something far greater than money or legacy. Each episode peels back another layer of who she is revealing a woman caught between love and danger tradition and rebellion faith and freedom. SANTOS The Book of Alina is emotional bold and visually charged. It blends the raw honesty of Euphoria the intensity and danger of Queen of the South and the dark wonder of Pans Labyrinth. It is a story about power survival and the cost of remembering who you are. In this world candles burn like warnings saints and spirits walk side by side and the past never stays buried. The Botanica becomes Alina's battlefield and her sanctuary. It is where she faces the truth about her family her own reflection and the power she carries in her blood. But this is just the beginning. The first fourteen episodes tell the story of her awakening. Beyond them lies a fifty episode saga that explores how far Alina will go to protect what is hers how deep the roots of her power run and what happens when a generation that was told to forget finally decides to remember. SANTOS The Book of Alina is a story of legacy and rebirth. A world where magic hides in plain sight where faith can be dangerous and where one woman's awakening can change everything. *This entry is participating in the ReelShort Reel Vertical Impact contest

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