Felix de la Concha paints portraits of elder people living in Bilbao -near and over 100 years old-. Meanwhile posing, his sitters talk about their lives in the Basque Country. Now the viewer can follow at the same time these emotive interviews and how the artist captures with astonishing fidelity every trace of their faces. Although aware of being recorded during their portrait process, they tell their stories at an age where vanity has a different rapport and recounting facts that almost none would declare in public. In Spain every people know that some political parties support or sympathize with the terrorist group ETA, but none in Bilbao would dare to address this in the way some people will do here. Bilbao, the main city of the Basque region, deals with many issues, some very difficult or impossible to understand. When today Euskera, the Basque language, is politically charged and has become mandatory in the schools and to get some jobs, these grandparents belong to a generation where to talk Euskera was considered derogatory as used only by the villagers.
—film producer