Gobierno de Navarra

A rural drama set in Obaba, a mythical region in northern Spain, where a young filmmaker struggled to capture the feel of the area, which in turn leads to a wealth of self-discovery.

Santi, a young high-school student with a serious physical reaction to sunlight, is forced by his health to move with his single mother to a shadowy, isolated village in the mountains of Spain where the inhabitants begin to reveal themselves as strangely xenophobic. When terrible, violent events begin to occur, Santi becomes first a pariah at school and then strongly suspected by the police of hideous murders. Santi himself, however, wonders if he is not the next victim.

Uztarroz is a village in the Navarrese Pyrenees where, until the summer of 2022, 3 films had been shot without the authorship and decisions of its inhabitants. In this fourth film they collectively determine how to portray the village and self-represent themselves.