A young publicist, with a successful professional life but with an empty personal life, finds himself on a trip against time to get to an important business meeting. During the trip, he meets a girl and, although they are very different and have opposite ways of life, they click when recalling the most mythical and emotional time of their childhood: the last summer they spent with their gang
Acting
Santolaria and Brendemühl's chemistry feels illegally authentic
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes nostalgia without being manipulative
Direction
Freixas makes a train feel like time machine
Director
Pau Freixas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Captures post-2008 Spanish economic anxiety where professional success felt hollow and generational escape became cultural phenomenon.
The train setting wasn't budget constraints—Freixas specifically wanted the literal inability to escape that mirrors Sala's emotional trappedness.
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