Diana Diegues

Once upon a time there were nine distant islands, known as the Azores, to which one could only arrive after endless boat trips, and from which one could only leave after losing the fear of facing the vastness of the sea. It is this place - either real, or imagined, that the cineast pretends to reach when embarking in her peculiar voyage aboard the fast and modern ferries that now connect these islands of the Atlantic. In her trip, she finds old sea stories, pages from lost diaries, and ancient photographs that hypnotise her: there are horizons teeming with boats, commanders and quartermasters, there are pianos in the first class parlours, cattle that travels near the third and travelling salesmen, there are military, many students, some affairs and a lot of nausea, there are birth on board and days of Saint Vapour, there are storm and a terrible fear of death.

시코락스는 누구일까? 셰익스피어 『템페스트』의 등장인물 중 가장 먼저 섬에 발을 들여놓은 자이지만, 안타깝게도 시코락스의 대사는 나오지 않는다. 프로스페로는 그녀를 공기의 정령 아리엘을 나무에 가둔 교활하고 사악한 늙은 마녀라고 간략히 설명한다. 그녀는 왜 아리엘을 나무에 가뒀을까? 프로스페로의 말을 믿어도 되는가.

At a 2005 Carnival night, something mysterious happens at Porto Formoso bay, leaving the fishing boats wrecked. Fishermen decide to build bigger boats, but at the small village harbor it is impossible to deck them. They demand the construction of a new harbor, but many inhabitants are opposed due to a Castle ruins that lay there. If to some residents ruins look worthless, for others they are the village soul and future, as a lot of tourists would like to visit them...While the landscape transforms, we follow the Director voice through the story of the last seven years of this community.