José Asunción Silva: poet, writer, one of the most important modernists from the first Iberoamerican generation. His projects have failed, as well as his political career and business, and he is immersed in his latest writing project, losing it during the shipwreck of a steamboat from Venezuela to Colombia. His life wanders between the re-writing of this final work and the short conversations he has with his young assistant, Inés. After finishing his manuscript, Silva ends the relationship with Inés and shoots himself in the heart, to be guided by the spirit of his younger sister on a new path towards the unknown.
The shipwreck is when the light brings about loss of memories that in some ways
insists in remembering doing itself.– José Asunción Silva
Credits
Production company — Cine Vendaval
Directed by — Juan Rocha
Script — Juan Rocha
Production — Marta Hernaiz Pidal, Jorge Bolado
Cinematography — Marta Hernaiz Pidal, Jorge Bolado