Inspired by Kirmen Uribe’s fact based novel “La hora de despertarnos juntos,” the Basque drama retraces the life of a real-life figure, Karmele Urresti, a nurse forced into exile during the Spanish Civil War. Played by Jone Laspiur, she falls in love with trumpet player Txomin Letamendi (Eneko Sagardoy) in France, and together they build a family across Paris, Caracas and Bilbao while navigating the fracture between love, loyalty and political conviction.
Altuna was struck by the density of events packed into the couple’s biography: expulsion, clandestine work against the dictatorship, collaboration with U.S. intelligence, two exiles in as many decades. “The temptation was to chase the sweep of history,” he admits, but the film deliberately narrows its gaze.
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