1985, in La Ribera of Navarre. Charo is a 35-year-old single woman who works in the family candle-making workshop, a declining trade that her father refuses to abandon. The house-workshop is a peculiar place where several generations have left their mark. Charo, in turn, also leaves hers through the objects she collects from the street and accumulates there. One day, Charo receives a visit from her sister-in-law, Villar, who leaves her in charge of her one-year-old son with Down syndrome, Marcos, for an indefinite period. Charo finds herself trapped between two imposed obligations: caring for others and preserving the legacy of the family trade. Obligations that her family seeks to pass on to her by denying her the ability to choose freely.

Fiction

85’

2028