A doctor's homecoming becomes a friendship, then war makes it a betrayal.
Abel Garrido, a doctor, returns to his hometown to stay. There he meets Mingo and his girlfriend Rita, and they become good friends. But when war comes in 1936, he must go and fight. The events that happen afterwards will take him to confront with Mingo.
Acting
Tamy Saad's restrained descent from idealist to broken man.
Direction
Torrado frames village intimacy before history crashes it.
Director
Ramón Torrado
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Franco's final years, it quietly subverts official Civil War narratives by making both sides culpable in personal betrayal.
Tamy Saad, a Lebanese-Spanish actor, was cast against type—his previous roles were romantic leads, not war-haunted doctors.
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