Álvaro, before escaping from himself during ten years, return to his town, a small village in Galicia, to attend to his father's funeral. There he will try to make it up with his brother and to recoup his daugther Mar. Everything gets complicated when he finds a dead woman in the road, the woman is Lidia, a Mar's friend who works as a prostitute.
Acting
Estévez carries collapse in every stillness.
Cinematography
Galicia's grey beauty as character, not backdrop.
Director
Luis Avilés
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Galicia's 'rural noir' boom—filmmakers using the region's melancholic landscape to explore Spain's uneasy relationship with its forgotten peripheries.
The title's double meaning: 'returns' as homecoming and the economic kind—Álvaro's debts, emotional and literal, finally coming due.
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