Romería - Das Tagebuch meiner Mutter

Summary

Eighteen-year-old Marina grew up in Catalonia with her mother's family after her parents died young of Aids. When she applies for a scholarship to a film school, a bureaucratic hurdle sends her, for the first time, back to her father's place of origin. She travels to Vigo, on Galicia's Atlantic coast, to obtain a death certificate, only to learn that her father is officially registered as having no children. What seems like a minor administrative error - correctable only with the signatures of her grandparents - pulls Marina unexpectedly into the center of a long-suppressed family history. In Galicia, she is welcomed with warmth and finds herself immersed in an extended family shaped by contradictory memories and unspoken tensions. Caught between closeness and estrangement, Marina begins to question the past for herself, forming her own picture of the people she has lost. In Romería, her search for truth becomes, at the same time, a process of self-discovery - of locating herself within a family whose story is marked by love, loss, and years of silence.