How much does private life impact on art?
Julen uses persons. The power and domination that a man exerts to make a film. Marian uses her friend June. Using friends to make a movie. Using people to make a movie. The money. Maybe a film has nothing to do with art or storytelling, maybe it's just another way of exercising power.
When VERA (Lola Dueñas) was young, she couldn’t take care of her newborn child. When CORA (Ana Torrent) was young, she was told that she could not have children and that the only way to start a family was to adopt a child.
This is a film noir story about a crime. A meeting of these two women on the banks of the Duero River.
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?
A twenty-year-old girl is kidnapped one night by a stranger. The next morning, she wakes up in a house in the middle of the woods where three other young women are being held captive. There, she discovers that they behave as if they were the kidnapper’s daughters and that, whether she likes it or not, her fate will be to become one of them.
In the long summer of 1872, Lucrecia Grouard (33) turns her back on her older brother, a religious zealot embarked on a reckless, suicidal mission. Penniless and lost in the remote reaches of the West, Lucrecia agrees to take charge of the ferry across the River Erebus. And so begins a spiritual journey of her own.
Her guides are the passengers she ferries from one bank to the other: an Indigenous woman, an abandoned mixed-race girl, a man with no arms, three sinister horsemen… until Lucrecia herself reaches the other side of the profound grief that has held her captive.