- Tahar is a 20-year-old Sahrawi young man who lives in the Basque Country. His family is still in the Tindouf refugee camp. One day he receives a call: his father is dying. Tahar returns and faces his past, his wounds and his memories.
- Sand rises in the desert and we hear a whisper, the whisper of the wind. It is a voice that speaks and shouts, a voice that tells stories so that they are never forgotten, so that they are not lost when the wind stops, when the whisper dies down in the eternal desert.
And one of the stories that the wind tells is Tahar's, which is a story of a young man, a 20-year-old Sahrawi, who lives in the Basque Country. He is a migrant who has only known two worlds, and who carries a deep wound inside him. It is a wound that he himself tries to hide, but that continues to grow inside him; a wound that hides something, something from his past; a wound that will tear at his insides when he returns to the camps and meets his father, sick and about to die. There he will confront his father, face to face, the two of them alone in a room, where the young man will have to wash his body. And in that duel, that fight, that confrontation, Tahar will review his entire life, wading through his memories, from the most insignificant to the most decisive:
conflicting memories, of his birthplace - The Camps - and of the place where he grew up - the Basque Country. Desert and forest, sea and sand. It is a journey through which he discovers the relationship he has had with his father, a relationship of continuous misunderstanding, of struggle and confrontation, the wound he has carried around inside.
And at that moment Tahar understands who he is and who his father is; he understands that deep down he loves his father a great deal. And he realises that he has his father right there in front of him, and the chance to forgive him and rest in peace forever. Because perhaps he has arrived in time, so that before his father leaves them he can hear his son's words.
It is as if the desert has given him another chance, but the wind has slowly but steadily begun to drop, and Tahar has to decide whether or not he wants to forgive him because if he does not, the whisper will stop, and then the story of Tahar will fall into oblivion, lost forever in the eternal desert.
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