The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line is comparable to a crease in the pages of the family album, but also to a crack in the walls of the paternal house. It resembles the open wound created when drilling into a mountain, but also a scar in the collective imaginary of a society, where the idea of salvation finds its tragic destiny in the political struggle. What is at the end of that line? Will old war songs be enough to circumvent that destiny?
Editing
Family photos scraped and interrogated like crime scene evidence.
Sound
Experimental sound design turns silence into another character.
Writing
Essay film narration that actually earns its poetic weight.
Director
Jorge Moneo Quintana
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'scar' metaphor references the Basque term 'zauria'—simultaneously personal wound and national trauma in collective memory.
Moneo Quintana spent three years in family archives before filming; some damaged photos were deliberately deteriorated further for texture.
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