Anna returns from Africa, where he worked two years in an NGO, and is hired as a security guard at an exclusive health center on the outskirts of Barcelona. By breaking with her boyfriend and go home, a colleague leaves a camper as temporary housing. Spend a few weeks on a wilderness camping and then installed in the parking lot of a service area of the highway. On a night patrol work meets a young, admitted by court order, do not walk because of paralysis and refuses to reveal his identity.
Acting
Molins carries the whole film with guarded restraint.
Direction
Pons makes parking lots and campers feel dangerously intimate.
Director
Ventura Pons
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ventura Pons shot the service area scenes at an actual functioning highway rest stop near Barcelona, with real truckers occasionally wandering into frame.
The film's Spanish title 'A la deriva' captures Anna's aimlessness better than 'Adrift'—she's not lost at sea, just floating between identities.
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