The wooden box

Because there is no room for the storage of her suddenly deceased husband Don Lucio in the cramped little home of Eloisa, Doña Isabel off ers up her home for use. However, it is not mourning but long nurtured hate that breaks out, and the presence of the dead brings to light uncomfortable truths, shamefully concealed secrets, fears, hidden desires and unfulfi lled yearnings. While the widow enjoys her newly gained freedom her neighbors settle their drastic accounts with the dead, a denunciator and pursuer of Franco’s regime. This is a bitter, poetic tragicomedy about the attitudes of a fi shing village on the Canary Islands in the 1960’s. E

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