Cosas Nuestras / Our Issues

"On any given Sunday, a young woman sits and goes through Instagram stories while her grandmother goes about doing household chores. A song by Rosalâia and a mention of Concha Piquer trigger a conversation in which pop culture, folklore, and the memory of transgressive characters who had to fight for their rights in an old-fashioned Spain intertwine with references from current generations. Thus, Lola Flores, Rocâio Jurado, Miguel Molina, the Spice Girls, Nathy Peluso, and Federico Garcâia Lorca constantly enter and exit the scene, but we also see memories from the countryside; we see the difficulties of those who had to emigrate during the dictatorship, and also those that young people still must face in order to find work or make themselves heard"--Translation of publisher description.