Emiliano Grassi

Walter was a photographer for the MLN-T during the Uruguayan military dictatorship. His memory drives a collective journey through time and reality, where images impose themselves as destiny.

The wait brings everything to a standstill. Existence becomes diffuse as time goes by. Observe everything or just what we want to see.

A bankrupt restaurateur on the brink of suicide is suddenly treated with deference and kindness by a bizarre group of strangers — who welcome him in their home, no less! Truth is they have mistaken him for the tax man they're waiting for, desperate to save their floundering ostrich-breeding business.

The documentary addresses the conflict that started in August 2015 between the company Fripur and its workers. After 39 years in the market and with a staff made up of ninety percent of women, the company terminated its ninety-sixty employees. As a result of the dismissal and the debts that the company maintained, a part of those employees decided to occupy the company in search of a solution. It is against this background that the film cuts out the figure of Marlen, a 52-year-old woman who worked all her life in the company and who throughout the year and a half of conflict became a sort of leader of the movement of resistance to closure of the fabric.