A Love (Un Amor) by Sara Mesa

The story of Un amor takes place in La Escapa, a small rural village where Nat, a young, inexperienced translator, has just moved. Her landlord, who gifts her a dog as a welcome gesture, will soon show his true colours, and issues over the rented house—its poor construction, the abundance of cracks and leaks—will become a real obsession for her. The rest of the inhabitants of the area—the shopkeeper, Píter the hippie, the old and insane Roberta, Andreas the German and the city family who spends weekends there—will welcome Nat with apparent normality, while mutual incomprehension and strangeness lurk in the background.

La Escapa, with the El Glauco mountain always present, will end up acquiring its own oppressive and confusing personality that will make Nat face not only her neighbours, but also herself and her own failures. Full of silence and misunderstandings, prejudice and assumptions, and taboos and transgressions, Un amor implicitly and constantly addresses the issue of language, not as a form of communication, but rather of exclusion and difference.