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FrançaisThe Secret of the Heart
feature-length fiction project directed by Terenci Corominas
adapted from the novel by Montserrat Gascón by Elena Serra
The Secret of the Heart is the tale of an initiatory journey through the paths of human experiences; from the depths of fear to the lightness of happiness. A passionate story of transformation and understanding that has left no reader of Montserrat Gascón’s novel indifferent and has made our team become a family, with a common project: REMEMBER who we are.
Thanks to the support of renowned actors such as Carlos Chamarro and Maria Pau Pigem, as well as an outstanding technical team, we were able to produce a teaser between Barcelona and the South of Morocco. Since then, we continue to develop the project while looking for partners who will allow us to secure funding and give life to this special project in the best conditions.
Presentation
A couple in crisis attempts to reconcile their marriage during a family trip with their son in the south of Morocco. However, the little boy inexplicably falls into a coma, throwing them into an introspective journey which forces them to remember who they are and what they are really looking for out of life.
The marriage of Clara (48) and Joan (48) has not been going well for years. She tries to cope with her work as an obstetrician and her mother’s role trying to fill the recurrent absences of her husband, an archaeologist and professor at the university. The admiration that her son Alex (9) feels for his father, only distances the couple and exacerbates Clara’s grumpy and overprotective character with the little boy in poor health. In a last attempt for reconciliation, Joan proposes them to go on a family trip to Morocco. An opportunity to reconnect and fulfill his promise to his son to take him someday on one of his expeditions to the desert. Alex is so excited that Clara is unable to refuse.
The trip to Zagora is a breath of fresh air for everyone. Alex want to know everything about his father’s profession and discovers the singularities of a very different country from his own. Witnessing the happiness of their son, Clara and Joan seem to recover a lost complicity. One night, under the stars in the desert, a caress, a kiss… Clara allows herself to relax enough until the physical reconnection takes place. However, that same night Alex falls ill and, suddenly, the arguments and confrontation resurface, proving that what happened in the dunes has only been a mere mirage.
Alex inexplicably falls into a coma, and the couple relives a traumatic past in which their first daughter, Raquel, suffered a sudden death when she was only a month old. Clara withdraws into herself again, terribly distressed by the fear of losing Alex. Meanwhile, Joan starts to run away again, unable to be fully present. While she waits for medical answers to what has happened, he begins an introspective journey with the support of a healer, who helps him remember who he is, and understand that Alex needs his whole presence and attention, not only physically.
Joan tries to share his feelings with Clara, explaining that the healer made him realize how much the disconnection between the two of them could be affecting Alex. He assures her that their son is offering them a chance to save themselves and their marriage. Far from understanding him, Clara perceives his words as more reproaches and the signal of the imminent end of their relationship. Joan decides to return to Morocco and Clara interprets it as a new escape. However, his motives are quite different this time. There, in the desert, in the same place where he was with his family, Joan gets what he has not achieved during all those months in the hospital: to reconnect with his son and feel his energy for the first time. At this point Clara realizes that she was wrong and decides to go to meet the healer in the hope that she can help her too.
The woman explains her that fear is the worst of all diseases as it contains them all, and that her fears are so great that they not only compress her heart, but have absorbed her son. She tells her she cannot save Alex, but she can relieve the pressure she feels. Clara agrees and the healer liberates her pericardium. At that point, she bursts into tears. Her cry is heartbreaking and deep, like a newborn’s first cry. And in that cry there is a smile. A mixture of pain and well-being. A cathartic emotional explosion. A rebirth.
Clara calls Joan and asks him to come back, admiting how much she misses him… And what if they start living instead of surviving?
A couple in crisis attempts to reconcile their marriage during a family trip with their son in the south of Morocco. However, the little boy inexplicably falls into a coma, throwing them into an introspective journey which forces them to remember who they are and what they are really looking for out of life.
The marriage of Clara (48) and Joan (48) has not been going well for years. She tries to cope with her work as an obstetrician and her mother’s role trying to fill the recurrent absences of her husband, an archaeologist and professor at the university. The admiration that her son Alex (9) feels for his father, only distances the couple and exacerbates Clara’s grumpy and overprotective character with the little boy in poor health. In a last attempt for reconciliation, Joan proposes them to go on a family trip to Morocco. An opportunity to reconnect and fulfill his promise to his son to take him someday on one of his expeditions to the desert. Alex is so excited that Clara is unable to refuse.
The trip to Zagora is a breath of fresh air for everyone. Alex want to know everything about his father’s profession and discovers the singularities of a very different country from his own. Witnessing the happiness of their son, Clara and Joan seem to recover a lost complicity. One night, under the stars in the desert, a caress, a kiss… Clara allows herself to relax enough until the physical reconnection takes place. However, that same night Alex falls ill and, suddenly, the arguments and confrontation resurface, proving that what happened in the dunes has only been a mere mirage.
Alex inexplicably falls into a coma, and the couple relives a traumatic past in which their first daughter, Raquel, suffered a sudden death when she was only a month old. Clara withdraws into herself again, terribly distressed by the fear of losing Alex. Meanwhile, Joan starts to run away again, unable to be fully present. While she waits for medical answers to what has happened, he begins an introspective journey with the support of a healer, who helps him remember who he is, and understand that Alex needs his whole presence and attention, not only physically.
Joan tries to share his feelings with Clara, explaining that the healer made him realize how much the disconnection between the two of them could be affecting Alex. He assures her that their son is offering them a chance to save themselves and their marriage. Far from understanding him, Clara perceives his words as more reproaches and the signal of the imminent end of their relationship. Joan decides to return to Morocco and Clara interprets it as a new escape. However, his motives are quite different this time. There, in the desert, in the same place where he was with his family, Joan gets what he has not achieved during all those months in the hospital: to reconnect with his son and feel his energy for the first time. At this point Clara realizes that she was wrong and decides to go to meet the healer in the hope that she can help her too.
The woman explains her that fear is the worst of all diseases as it contains them all, and that her fears are so great that they not only compress her heart, but have absorbed her son. She tells her she cannot save Alex, but she can relieve the pressure she feels. Clara agrees and the healer liberates her pericardium. At that point, she bursts into tears. Her cry is heartbreaking and deep, like a newborn’s first cry. And in that cry there is a smile. A mixture of pain and well-being. A cathartic emotional explosion. A rebirth.
Clara calls Joan and asks him to come back, admiting how much she misses him… And what if they start living instead of surviving?
