Backroads

Backroads

The small but graniosos happenings of the time.

1997105 min5.8 / 10

A melancholic road movie about a father and son's precarious, nomadic life along the Spanish coast, where displacement and economic hardship test their intimate bond.

Spain, 1974. A teenager and his father are traveling in a car that is the only property they have. Their life is a continuous move by desolate coastal apartments in the tourism low season. When forced to change route and get away from sea, their lives will change dramatically.

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