La dona que perdia tots els avions

Josep Maria Miró

A few hours before catching the plane that is supposed to take her back to her country, Sara is sitting on a porch of an old colonial house in the capital of a tropical island where her company has sent her. Sara defines herself as a professional tourist, as she lives out of hotels and restaurants, writing reports for tourism and insurance companies of the developed world. Next to her are two suitcases: one with her luggage and the other with some personal objects she has taken from this apparently abandoned house where her husband, who died on the island under strange circumstances, lived. After seeing some photographs taken by her husband, Sara has suddenly lost her sight. A local man and woman approach her, with disturbing, ambivalent and doubtful intentions, making it difficult to distinguish consolation from the worst kind of threat. As afternoon turns into sunset and in the process of intermittent blindness, chiaroscuros will gradually open on personal loss, identity and the brutal and perturbing imprint of the West on this territory. With La dona que perdia tots els avions, in 2009 Josep Maria Miró received the 34th Born Prize given by the Cercle Artístic de Ciutadella. Can you see that plane? Up there... About to cross those clouds? You can’t imagine how many planes leave this city’s airport every day. They come and go in all directions. That’s my plane. I should be on it. I’ve missed so many… I’ve lost count. (Josep Maria Miró, La dona que perdia tots els avions) Cast Francesc Garrido, Lina Lambert i Mercè Mariné