About The Asunta Case
The Asunta Case (El caso Asunta) is a 2024 Spanish limited series that dramatizes one of the most widely followed real criminal investigations in recent Galician history. In September 2013, near Santiago de Compostela, a young adopted girl named Asunta is reported missing by her parents, the well-known Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra. The series begins with the search and the first hours of the inquiry, then follows, step by careful step, how the investigation gradually turns toward the very people who reported her gone.
Rather than sensationalize the tragedy, the series adopts a restrained, procedural tone. It is told largely through the eyes of the investigators, the examining judge and the lawyers, tracing how evidence is gathered, how timelines are reconstructed and how a case is built and argued. Candela Pena plays Rosario Porto and Tristan Ulloa plays Alfonso Basterra, while Javier Gutierrez appears as the examining judge, Maria Leon and Carlos Blanco as Civil Guard investigators, and Iris Wu as Asunta.
A central thread is the extraordinary media attention the real case attracted in Spain, and the way that public scrutiny pressed against the slower, more deliberate work of the courts. The show weighs questions of presumption of innocence, the reliability of testimony and forensic findings, and the limits of what an investigation and a trial can ultimately establish. Throughout, it treats the loss at the heart of the story with sobriety and respect, keeping its focus on the people pursuing the truth and the justice process rather than on graphic detail.