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Antonio, 72, comes to the same Barcelona café every day. He orders an espresso, unfolds a newspaper, but does not read. He waits. Thirty years ago, this is where he last saw his daughter. Director Carlos Villar crafts a slow chronicle of waiting, where the main action is the absence of action. Life in the Gràcia district buzzes around Antonio: tourists, students, young mothers. But his inner world froze in 1995. When a new waitress, Marta, starts working at the café, her casual question disrupts the fragile equilibrium. This film is an exploration of memory as geography, where the past becomes the only real country.