Synopsis
My grandmother Pastora Tovar carries with the secret of a dead daughter, her memory is buried in years of oblivion. Facing those silences is an encounter with pain. Running away, hiding, being silent in the middle of a war makes her a survivor. In the silence echoes the voice of her dead daughter, my aunt. Whom I listen to and she speaks through me. Yacopí, their hometown, was bombed in 1952 by the conservative government during “La Violencia” time. The ruins of the town remain like the wrinkles of my grandmother’s body and both resist the oblivion of history. Crossing the silence and going through the ruins, my aunt’s voice emerges and our Lineage becomes the memory that recovers the forgotten heritage of my grandmother, Yacopí and the history of violence in Colombia.
