The Death of Antonio Sànchez Lomas

On All Saints’ Day, the inhabitants of a southern Spanish village pay tribute to their dead: a day of reverence and remembrance. Nevertheless, beneath the serene surface lie unhealed grief, thundering silence and ever-burning political conflicts. The brutal murder of Antonio Lomas in 1952, an unpunished atrocity committed by the Guardia Civil during the Franco era, triggered a divisive collective trauma that has never been processed or dealt with. A dramatized reenactment of the painful past events seems an ideal way to reveal all the skeletons in the closet, but not everyone shares the same opinion…