They Will Be Dust

A group of left-wing labour lawyers go into hiding in a house when the coup d’état takes place in Spain on 23 February 1981. Unsure of what to do, they debate between fleeing the country, staying in hiding to await events or trying to do something to defend Spain’s fledgling democracy. 

It’s winter holidays and fourteen-year-old Ana discovers that the metal plate she has in her arm from an accident she suffered as a child is now receiving a strange message in Morse code.

Raised in a repressive era where sexuality was taboo, they found their understanding of womanhood based on unspoken rules and implicit impositions. Now, their fearless voices incarnate in a single 65-year-old woman, who revisits a kaleidoscopic life of intertwined memories, secrets, and hidden desires.

Nasreen, a fleeing journalist, and her teenage son’s asylum application is denied in Brussels. Léa, a burnout immigration officer, has found out she is pregnant. Both of them will cross paths at a specific moment in time, and their meeting will have an impact and ripple effect on each other’s lives. 

Claudia is 18 years old when her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. She is reluctant to give up her youth for an early carer’s role, and her motto outside her home will be not to stop... But the disease will have the same motto. 

In 1992, 7-year-old Xiaowei arrives in Barcelona to reunite with his parents. Despite his mother’s efforts, their bond remains distant throughout his childhood, adolescence, and youth. 

After a prolonged one-night stand, Oliver and Irina decide to go together to Oliver’s ex’s wedding in Ibiza. There they will have to run from the secret international organization Irina had escaped from. 

Conchita wants a brooch she can’t afford and contacts Jesús to fulfil her dream. But what she feels when she possesses it is not what she expected.