Maider Oleaga is a Basque filmmaker. She has written and directed the documentaries 'Muga deitzen da pausoa' (2018), 'Iragan gunea Berlin' (2016), 'Esperanza' (2012) and 'Amaren ideia' (2010), as well as several fiction shorts.
Two strangers, Doroty, a domestic employee from Central America aged around 45, and Mari, an elderly woman who is hard of hearing, are forced to spend the lockdown together to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Three elders return to their homeland seventy years after being forced to leave it because of the Spanish Civil War.
Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain, 2011. Maider, a filmmaker, moves to the very same flat where pedadogist Elbira Zipitria Irastorza (1906-1982) clandestinely established the first ikastola, a Basque school, under the harsh regime of dictator Francisco Franco. Despite of her pioneering work, developed throughout thirty years, her story is not well known, so Maider, intrigued, begins to research…
