Materia Cinema

A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s downtown art scene and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.

Pilar is an ordinary woman who lives immersed in a routine that has never been questioned: work, family and housework. Therefore, when she is unexpectedly told that she is being fired, she enters into a deep identity crisis. Despite everything, she refuses to give up and clings to what she thinks she has left: her role as a mother of two teenagers, but, unfortunately, her children no longer need her as before. In this personal situation, she is moved by the generational clash regarding the young women in her family, who, like a mirror, reflects her longing for a life that she has never lived.

In a town in rural southern Spain, Antonia, a teenage mother, disappears in the middle of the night, leaving her baby behind. Fifty years later in Barcelona, Carmen, an introverted casting director, is looking for people to share their experiences of arriving in a new city. In her search, Carmen meets Antonia, an impulsive woman who intrudes into her loneliness. Who says that time heals all wounds?

Camille Decourtye and Blaï Mateu Trias are heads of Baro d’evel, a celebrated French performing arts company. When the Festival d’Avignon commissions a new piece from them, they feel the need to find a renewed sense to their existence as artists, partners and parents