Celia Viada Caso

Benjamina Miyar Díaz (1888-1961) led an unusual life in her house on calle del Agua in Corao, Asturias, at the foot of the Picos de Europa mountain range in northern Spain: she was a photographer and watchmaker for more than forty years, but she also fought in her own humble and heroic way against General Franco's dictatorship.

She has a crooked back, strong hands, black nails. Gregoria lives bent down to the ground. Once a week she carries kilos of fruit and vegetables to feed the city. Her words echo the ancestral mischievousness of someone who needs very little: a piece of land, a few recycled plastic boxes and a friendly conversation at the end of the day. This film is for all the gregorias who manage to live as they please.

In 1970, the writer María Luisa Elío returned to Spain after three decades in exile in Mexico. Ever since she was forced by the Spanish Civil War to abandon her home at the age of nine, she has dreamed of reuniting herself with a past that perhaps no longer existed. In this documentary, the director explores the various separate parts of the life of this woman who belonged to circles of the most important cutting-edge artists of the mid-20th century and who wrote, acted in and made a film about her own ordeal.