Amaia has just become a mother, and the challenge is even more significant than she imagined. So when her partner has to leave for several weeks because of his job, she decides to spend time with her parents in a lovely coastal village in the Basque Country and hopefully share the responsibility of looking after her baby. However, she forgot that even when one becomes a parent, one never stops being a daughter.
Acting
Laia Costa's face does more work than most scripts.
Direction
Ruiz de Azúa knows exactly how long to hold uncomfortable silences.
Director
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely in Euskera-speaking Basque Country, the film uses regional identity as another layer of inescapable inheritance—Amaia can't outrun her family OR her homeland.
Ruiz de Azúa based the film on her own postpartum experience and her complicated relationship with her mother; that beach house is her actual family home.
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