Santi Celaya

Summer 1936: young unemployed communist David Carr leaves Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). After being wounded, he goes to Barcelona, where he joins another group of fighters.

At noon on July 30, 2009, a bomb explodes in a Civil Guard car near the port of the island of Mallorca, killing two agents. The police activate the so-called "Operation Cage": no means of transport can enter or leave the island, including private vessels.

In an act of desperation, Danielle locks up her ex-boyfriend Phillip into the basement of her house. Phillip, chained in handcuffs, with no means of escape becomes Danielles prisoner and is forced to a relationship with her.

The film is a free adaptation of Isaac Asimov story in 1976 wrote "The Riddle", but placing it in 2005. This is a dramatic fictional story that nowadays we consider a bad omen in the world in which we live. A small autonomous region that is about to go bankrupt. A world in economic crisis and securities, overpopulated, and governed by those who will not hesitate to look for its own interests.