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
Adriana Ozores
Amparo
Félix Gómez
Agustín
Pepe Soriano
Pilar Castro
Sonia
Carlos Kaniowsky
Floro
Fanny de Castro
Rosa
Chani Martín
Genaro
Antonio Muñoz de Mesa
Peláez
Josu Ormaetxe
Jefe de obra
Joaquín Climent
Hormaeche
Francesc Orella
Miguel Ángel
Fernando Soto
Trabajador 2
Ana Wagener
Begoña Castilla
Alfonso Vallejo
Chacón
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.
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