And what is a window, I wonder, if not a grand frame?
The window cuts the sky, framing a blue rectangle to dive into, like in a pool.
But the best part is the view. Not the view from the window, but the one passersby and neighbors have of me.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to my show.
I was born in a country that no longer exists, I often say. It’s not true, because the country where I was born hadn’t ceased to exist. It had simply been hidden under a red handkerchief.
From high-society gatherings to the creation of a culinary empire, the Marquesa de Parabere crafted her own recipe for immortality.
With humor, wit, and determination, she transformed Spanish cuisine and left a legacy still savored today in every page of her masterpiece.
Filming the scars of migrant people. Bodies leaping into the void, bodies swimming fully clothed in the sea, strange fruits, porcelains, still lifes. Scars as journeys. Legal identity documents.
Does the image recognize us all? Do the stories recognize us all?
1985, in La Ribera of Navarre. Charo is a 35-year-old single woman who works in the family candle-making workshop, a declining trade that her father refuses to abandon. The house-workshop is a peculiar place where several generations have left their mark. Charo, in turn, also leaves hers through the objects she collects from the street and accumulates there.
One day, Charo receives a visit from her sister-in-law, Villar, who leaves her in charge of her one-year-old son with Down syndrome, Marcos, for an indefinite period. Charo finds herself trapped between two imposed obligations: caring for others and preserving the legacy of the family trade. Obligations that her family seeks to pass on to her by denying her the ability to choose freely.
Lucía, imprisoned for drug trafficking, discovers she is pregnant when she receives her first temporary release. Outside, her partner Héctor pulls her back into the same trap that led her to prison. But once behind bars again, Lucía finds something unexpected: a network of women who support her, care for her, and show her a kind of love she had never known. In that sisterhood, her true path to freedom is born.
