Manuel is a Spanish writer who has emigrated to Argentina. He hears that his childhood village in Spain is to be turned into a reservoir, and returns for one last trip. There he meets widow Virginia, an old love, and begins to hope that he might reignite the flame between them. As old secrets are revealed, the villagers must come to terms with their imminent loss and the drowning of their home.
Acting
Federico Luppi and Mercedes Sampietro's weathered chemistry
Cinematography
Drowning village landscapes, poetic decay
Director
Enrique Gabriel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Directed by Enrique Gabriel, this reflects 1990s Spanish cinema's obsession with rural extinction and historical memory—villages flooded for Franco-era reservoirs became metaphors for silenced pasts.
Federico Luppi was Argentina's most exported actor; casting him as a Spaniard returning 'home' adds delicious meta-layers about displacement and belonging.
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