Back Home so Late

Writer María Luisa Elío returned to Spain in 1970 after spending three decades in exile in Mexico. She wanted to reconnect with a past that perhaps no longer existed. In this collection of ten short stories, the director explores fragments of the life of this woman, who was part of the most important avant-garde artistic movements of the mid-20th century. She was friends with Alejo Carpentier, Luis Buñuel and Gabriel García Márquez, the latter of whom dedicated One Hundred Years of Solitude to her. She also wrote and acted in En el balcón vacío, a film about her own wounds.