Carla Sospedra

In 2018, a group of nine women filed a complaint against two of their teachers at Lleida’s Theatre School for sexual abuse carried out between 2001 and 2008, when they were teenagers. It was too late. Due to fear, embarrassment, because they took so long to understand and digest what had happened, the complaint arrived when the statute of limitations had expired and the case had been closed. What they didn’t know is that, despite the statute of limitations having expired, their statements were opening a new door where, perhaps, all was not lost.

In the form of a filmed epistolary conversation, two young, experienced filmmakers discuss film, present and past family, heritage and maternity. The personal and profound reflections—which are embodied in the graceful images taken day-to-day—are suddenly echoed by the political emergency of a country.

Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet travels to Siberia to attend a film festival where an unknown man with whom she cannot communicate and who reminds her of her father hands her a box containing the photographs of a lifetime. In Barcelona, she tries to put the images in order and unravel their mystery.

Sara lives in a foster-care facility. Her youth days seem to slip through her fingers while she awaits for her father to come back.