Subverting the narrative codes of cinema queer, which has historically struggled to illustrate difficult processes of liberation, Maspalomas It traces the painful path back to self-repression of an old man who, after two decades of enjoying his homosexuality (in the Canary Island town that gives the film its title), suffers a stroke and decides to come back into the closet when he is admitted to a nursing home in his native Basque Country. The exploration of the experience queer in old age – understood as a process of searching for identity – is not new to the screenwriter and director José Mari Goenaga, who in 2010 already addressed this theme in the film In 80 days, more focused on the female universe.