Martín tries to find his brother Pablo, who disappeared after a terrorist incident to which he was apparently linked. In the course of his investigation, he meets Berta, a mysterious woman who leads him to an Argentinean psychiatrist exiled in Denmark who may have information about Pablo's whereabouts.
Acting
Carmelo Gómez's haunted stillness carries entire wordless sequences.
Cinematography
Denmark's gray isolation mirrors Argentina's buried trauma beautifully.
Direction
Camus trusts silence more than exposition—rare and devastating.
Director
Mario Camus
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Spain's own reckoning with Basque terrorism and historical memory, the film smuggles Argentine junta trauma through a Danish detour—exile talking to exile across invisible wounds.
Mario Camus, usually associated with rural Spanish realism, called this his 'most personal film'—the shift to European co-production melancholia alienated Spanish critics expecting his earlier warmth.
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