The fear of confessing to her children the truth about their absent father will detonate the claim of a deferred memory. Doña Ángela opens the door with that tense smile of someone who keeps a secret. Nervous but friendly, she invites us in and there, in the living room of her house, she decides to tell us her story. Displacement, disappearances, clandestinity and exile are part of the scenes of her life, which are piled up one after the other in front of us. Her story is also ours, the story of Colombia, the story of this permanent impossibility to name what hurts us the most.

La Visita is the result of a process of collective creation around the research “The war we did not live: family palimpsest”, where José Luis Mondragón (director) delves into the memory of those of us who have not suffered the conflict in the flesh, but remember it through the stories and silences of our families.