With the pandemic already in retreat (but still present and threatening), with political prisoners on the street (but exiles still abroad and judicial repression still active) and at the gates of the beginning of a political dialogue with the State (but with few specifics and low expectations), this year's Catalonia Day comes in a context at a time of waiting. The course is uncertain. Despite having the leverage of the Catalan Government, the pro-independence movement remains divided and disoriented, without a common roadmap, still digesting the consequences of everything that the independence referendum and the forward flight of a symbolic declaration of independence four years ago entailed. The same can be said of the Catalan opposition: it is neither mobilised nor united. The impotence stalemate is lengthening amidst a panorama of social and economic urgency due to the harsh shock of the pandemic.