
Alone In The Night

A group of labour lawyers hide in a house when the coup d'état of 23F takes place in Spain. Unsure of what to do, they debate between fleeing the country, staying in hiding or trying to do something to defend Spain's young democracy.
[Veoasecan] It offers a different look at political events that are usually treated as dramas. But despite using the context to talk about a generation that faced the terror of an uncertain future overnight, the transposition of the uncertainty of a country into a comedy of errors ends up failing. The comedy is too simple, the development of the characters is very forced and the actors seem out of place. The film never finds the balance necessary for the particular conflicts to fit into the general context.