Benito Zambrano : 2011
The Sleeping Voice
Madrid, 1940. General Franco and his army have seized power. The winners are not satisfied with their victory; they want to exterminate their enemy. Every man and woman who was part of, or supported, the Resistance, or who is just suspected of it, will be hunted down and eradicated without mercy. The women's prison in Ventas is filled with prisoners of this kind. Women who fought for freedom who are now suffering repression, torture and death. Pepita leaves her home village in Cordoba in order to be near her seven-month pregnant older sister Hortensia who is facing execution (delayed until the birth of her baby) for her involvement with the Resistance movement and its charismatic leader Felipe, the father of her baby. Amid the horrors of Ventas jail, Hortensia and her fellow inmates attempt to ensure that her child will be handed over to Pepita instead of being taken away and placed in an orphanage.
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