The legendary Oleg Nikolaevitch Karavaichuk is the mysterious and moving subject of this loving film by the young director Duque. He was moved by the music the pianist composed for a film by Kira Muratova and is the first foreigner to win the trust of the eccentric and still active 89-year-old Russian.
Sustain desire through time. Cinema, friendship and poetry between two continents.
When Spanish Civil War ends in 1939, some of the women who played a leading role in the creative and literary boom known as Generation of 1927, stay in Spain, sacrificing the spirit that had enlightened them; but many others take the hard and long path of exile.
Spain, 1914. A group of women fight with courage for their rights in a society that condemns them to mediocrity. In 1927, their most advantaged students free themselves from the intellectual, social and physical corset that constricted them to a role as wives and mothers, so they will participate without complexes in the cultural life of Spain from then until the disaster of the Spanish Civil War.
While her girlfriend is in the hospital in a coma state after find her floating in the bathtub without vital signs, Clara stars on a path of physical and psychological transformation, with the goal of possessing her in some way.
25 years ago a group of poets participated in a documentary about an ethylic competition around bars of Buenos Aires.
When Spanish Civil War ends in 1939, some of the women who played a leading role in the creative and literary boom known as Generation of 1927, stay in Spain, freely or not, sacrificing the spirit that had enlightened them, adapting themselves —or pretending to do so— to the new feminine role imposed by the victors, who were determined to cage these free souls at home, to live just as wives and mothers.
