Octavia

Rodrigo returns to his childhood home of Salamanca after a fourdecade absence and a career as a guerrilla in Latin America a secret agent in the Eastern Bloc and an official for an international agency While Rodrigo may have attempted to put his past life behind him the memory of his now deceased mother and his oldworld family returns to haunt him In an old city dominated by the weight of tradition Rodrigo discovers a daughter about whose existence he had never known as well as a granddaughter the enigmatic and beautiful Octavia A rebellious teenager Octavia dismisses her grandfathers old politics possessing her own sense of what freedom means Patinos film is a poetic assured contemplation on the pain of returning somewhere you never really left and the accompanying ironies of a man obsessed with history who cannot face his own