Programme Alcine54

Marina travels to Vigo to meet the family of her biological father, who died of AIDS, just like her mother, when she was very young. Through encounters with her uncles, aunts, and grandparents, she tries to reconstruct the story of her parents, but everyone feels too much shame about the couple’s drug-related struggles—something Marina’s presence inevitably reminds them of. It is the teenage love story she experiences with her cousin that allows her to reimagine her parents and connect with them. In this way, she creates a tale, aided by her mother’s diary, that frees her from the stigma her family feels toward them and fulfills her desire to understand the past… A film about family memory that concludes the director’s trilogy, which includes Summer 1993 and Alcarràs.

Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), a young aspiring actress, arrives in Los Angeles to pursue a film career and stays in her aunt’s apartment. There, she meets the enigmatic Rita (Laura Harring), a woman suffering from amnesia following an accident on Mulholland Drive. Together, they decide to investigate who Rita is and how she ended up there.