there are no outdoor ice rinks

in Madrid

An intimate portrait of the Spanish poet Jesús López Pacheco (exiled in 1968 to Canada) told in a first-person narration by his filmmaker son while he writes a screenplay about a Canadian who volunteered in 1937 to defend democracy in Spain.

The fictional story and the poet’s life become interwoven when the filmmaker documents his travels between Spain and Canada, retracing the process and effects of immigration, imagining impossible connections, and finding a chest full of manuscripts, audio tapes and films of his father’s music and poetry.