

A grieving lawyer cracks open a mining town's corruption like a rotten egg—stinks, but someone's gotta do it.
Amparo, a lawyer working as an advisor in an insurance company in Madrid is grieving over a traumatic event in her past. She will have to react, however, to the world surrounding her when a young man of her acquaintance dies mysteriously while working in a mine. Amparo will take over his case and discover in the process a world of corruption and illegal measures taken by the company that the young man worked for.
Acting
Adriana Ozores carries grief like a stone in her pocket.
Direction
González-Sinde's patient, unshowy confidence in every frame.
Director
Ángeles González-Sinde
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
González-Sinde was one of few Spanish women directing features in the early 2000s; this film quietly interrogates workplace patriarchy through Amparo's outsider status in a male-coded profession.
The mining town exteriors were shot in the actual Asturian coalfields, lending that gray, exhausted authenticity no production design could fake.