Marta's journey

After the success achieved with his first feature film, La plague, from 2013, Neus Ballús embarked on a trip to Africa to get closer to the way in which Europeans live, as tourists or as entrepreneurs, the confrontation with a different culture. The director manages, as had happened in her previous works and will happen in her later feature film, Sis dies corrents (2021), delve into the complexity that exists on the surface of everyday life.

Synopsis: Marta, a 17-year-old girl, goes on vacation to a resort in Africa with her father and little brother. Marta is bored and prefers to spend more time with the young people who work at the hotel than with her own family. These new friendships will strain the relationship with her father and will force the family to talk and try to understand each other. The trip will become a much richer experience for everyone than they could imagine..