Retornos

Retornos

A lot can happen where nothing ever happens

2010 · 88 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama, Thriller

Álvaro, before escaping from himself during ten years, return to his town, a small village in Galicia, to attend to his father's funeral. There he will try to make it up with his brother and to recoup his daugther Mar. Everything gets complicated when he finds a dead woman in the road, the woman is Lidia, a Mar's friend who works as a prostitute.

Directed by Luis Avilés · Written by David Perez

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