Àlvar Triay

This latest feature from the eccentrically experimental Catalan director Portabella is a beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked ‘dramatic’ scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world hears thanks to his extraordinary ear for harmony.

Consuelo Deulofeu is a young orphan who faces an enormous amount of difficulties, while investigating whether she is the daughter of a famous painter and her gypsy muse. While finding out her identity, she discovers that she is a gypsy and rebels against a fate dictated by society. When, thanks to confusion, she manages to work in El Siglo warehouses, a great love will be born.

Sara disappeared two years ago and since then in the village, Trinquet, they have not heard from her again. Pep, who has always been in love with her, decides to go out to look for her, in a desperate attempt to understand how and why he ran away.