"The Map of Longing" is a 2026 Spanish drama series built around a set of clues one sister leaves behind for another, turning grief into an unlikely trail through memory and place rather than a straightforward mystery.
What is The Map of Longing about?
Before her death, Lucy puts together a personal game for her younger sister Greta — a sequence of clues meant less to solve anything than to pull Greta out of stasis and back into motion. Following the trail leads Greta through places and memories tied to Lucy, and eventually toward Will Tucker, whose growing presence in her life becomes tangled up with the slow work of processing what she has lost. Rather than building toward one big reveal, the series treats each new clue as its own small chapter in Greta's reckoning with grief.
About the cast
The ensemble is led by Alícia Falcó and Georgina Amorós, joined by Pablo Álvarez, Laia Marull, Mario de la Rosa and Ramón Barea, a group that carries both Greta's present-day search and the flashback material that fills in who Lucy was before she died.
Context & significance
Directed by Laura M. Campos and Gemma Ferraté, the series is produced in Spain with episodes running about 45 minutes, part of a wave of Spanish-language drama that treats grief and romance as intertwined rather than separate threads. Its structure — a chain of clues used to drive a story that is really about mourning and self-discovery — puts it alongside other recent dramas that lean on a puzzle or game as the engine for character change rather than for plot mechanics alone.
Watching The Map of Longing on Ktime
"The Map of Longing" streams on K-Time with a free account login, in its original Spanish with the platform's Farsi-language interface making it easy for Persian-speaking viewers to browse, queue and continue watching alongside the rest of K-Time's drama catalogue.