October 2011. Three generations of women try to safeguard their affective and family ties despite the end of the complicated armed conflict in the Basque Country. Events overwhelm little Amaia, who is reinventing her own story, as naively as compulsively.
Civil Guard Agent (voice)
New York City, October 10, 1965. A group of wooden giant figures from Pamplona, representing Basque culture and traditions, parade down the street; but the local authorities have not allowed the appearance of all of them: due to the racial prejudices that persist in many sectors of society, the participation of two black giants has been banned.
Xabi
The story of a family; the story of a conflict. The rural and the urban, the past and the present, parents and their offspring: opposing ways of life struggle against one another whilst, in eloquent silence, the grandmother ('amama') watches her family’s destiny unfold.
