La verja roja

Begoña arrives in Madrid to start a new life: a university degree, a shared apartment, and the promise of newfound freedom. But the past doesn't stay behind so easily. The ghost of her dead mother visits her frequently, her grandmothers maintain a heavy silence about the family history, and her own body —filled with anxiety, desire, and fear— prevents her from putting down roots. When, by chance, she stumbles upon an old cover of El Caso about El Lute, Begoña embarks on a personal investigation that becomes an obsession. She decides to propose his story for a play at the Complutense University. Soon, what seemed like someone else's biography becomes intertwined with the gaps in her own genealogy: the figure of her mother, the shadow of her grandfather, the Transition to democracy, and collective memory intertwine in a single narrative, revealing the extent to which silences and wounds are also inherited.