A student’s correspondence with the daughter of a Spanish exile. Narrated via letters written by Lorenzo, a student who met the daughter of a Spanish exile in England the previous summer, the film bears witness to the unease of a 60s generation in a fascist Spain that lives in the past and does not want to let it go. Patino’s first full-length film, showing glimmers of optimism about a Spain shifting towards modernity, does not follow a linear structure, but instead reinstates cinema’s capacity to pull together images according to the laws of emotion, as in dream or memory.
