Set against the 2008 financial crisis in Spain, the film centers a young boy’s solo journey into the unknown, looking for answers after witnessing his grandfather on his deathbed. Beyond the abandoned buildings and state of decay that surround his grandparents’ rural home, he finds a heightened sense of life in the natural world, revealing the subtle magic of the weeds, insects, and lizards that cross his path.
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Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
