There is a moment in José Luis Guerín's film Stories from the Good ValleyIn this film, Barcelona appears on the horizon as a distant promise, or perhaps as a threat. From Vallbona, the city's silhouette seems like something happening elsewhere, in another time. And yet, you are there, within it, treading on land still irrigated by the Comtal irrigation canal as it has for centuries, amidst orchards tended with a patience and tenacity that the fast-paced city has forgotten how to practice. It's a neighborhood that's difficult to reach. This isn't a metaphor: it's truly difficult to get there, physically, amidst trains and highways that cut through it without stopping. And perhaps that's why it has preserved something that the rest of the city has been losing without realizing it. In fact, an earlier film, Little IndianMarc Recha's film already introduced us to a little-known space that maintains its unique personality in an overflowing metropolis.

35,000 bars closed in Spain between 2010 and 2023, according to data from the INE, the National Institute of Statistics. What is lost when a bar closes? This is what Hugo Subtil, an expert researcher in economic policy and professor at the University of Zurich, has studied in France.

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A man kills his son-in-law in the street and calls the Mossos d'Esquadra, with murderous coldness, to come and arrest him. A man dies in his home, and the neighbors find out fifteen years later, because they thought he had gone to live in a nursing home.