8.260 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestBittori finally receives a letter from Joxe Mari. She walked to the cemetery to tell the content of the letter to her husband, she comes to her memory the last day the family spent together in Zaragoza, unaware that tragedy awaited her return.
A look at the impact of Spain’s Basque conflict on ordinary people on both sides, such as the widow of a man killed by the ETA who returns to her home village after the 2011 ceasefire between the separatist group and the Spanish government, and her former intimate friend, the mother of a jailed terrorist.
Acting
Irureta and Gabarain's silent hatred could cut glass.
Direction
Gabilondo makes Basque country feel claustrophobically intimate.
Writing
No villains, no heroes—just people ruined by conviction.
Creator
Aitor Gabilondo
Elena Irureta
Bittori
Ane Gabarain
Miren
Iñigo Aranbarri
Xabier
Susana Abaitua
Nerea
José Ramón Soroiz
Txato
Mikel Laskurain
Joxian
Jon Olivares
Joxe Mari
Loreto Mauleón
Arantxa
Eneko Sagardoy
Gorka
María Isabel Díaz Lago
Celeste
Chechu Salgado
Patxo
Patxi Santamaría
Don Serapio
Nagore Aranburu
Txopo
Richard Sahagún
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Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Spain's 'pact of forgetting' post-Franco meant ETA trauma was rarely dramatized; this series broke that silence and sparked national debate about whose stories get told.
Fernando Aramburu's novel spent 3 years researching victims and perpetrators equally; the adaptation filmed in the actual Basque villages described, with locals as extras.
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