"During an annual vacation to visit their maternal grandparents in Mallorca, Cata (Zoe Stein) and Eva (Martina García) engage in typical teenage shenanigans: they aimlessly ride bikes along the coast, go to beach bonfire parties and flirt with the boys they encounter there. Basically, all is as it should be-at least until the day that Cata discovers her grandmother's unresponsive body."
"Thus generational lines blur, a rift that causes Pepa to regress into adolescent brattiness and Tomeu to bicker with Cata as if she were his wife. While these projections are rooted in individual psychological responses to the matriarch's passing, a certain spiritual presence is undoubtedly lingering in the familial home, which itself feels unchanged from the pastel fashions of the late 20th century."
During a vacation in Mallorca, cousins Cata and Eva shift from carefree teenage activities to shock and mourning when Cata finds her grandmother unresponsive. The girls' mother, Pepe, returns to assist with the funeral but faces estrangement from her father, Tomeu, who begins to communicate only through Cata. Cata trying on a vintage dress evokes uncanny parallels with her late namesake and accelerates role reversals. Family members regress or treat the teenager as a spouse as grief reshapes dynamics. Occasional physical phenomena—light beams, rustling curtains, shifting trinkets—suggest a lingering spiritual presence in the pastel-hued home.
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