Logline:

In the tense final hours before his execution in a secluded Spanish farmhouse, poet Federico García Lorca is confronted and assaulted by his vengeful cousin an event that symbolises their nation’s bitter divide.

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Synopsis:

Federico García Lorca, poet and playwright of international renown, has been abducted by zealous and jealous family members on the orders of General Franco. Lorca’s vocal support of the Communists has placed him as public enemy number one and during a dinner with family friends who also happen, ironically, to be Falangists, he is arrested and slips from the view of the world.

His prison is a country farmhouse and here it is that his cousin by marriage Antonio Benavides verbally and physically brutalises him in an attempt to get him to confess to his homosexuality and politically left leanings. For Lorca his homosexuality is obvious to every one and he had never hidden his anti-Fascist sympathies, so Antonio’s violence seems impotent to Lorca.

Some hours later he is removed to the countryside with three others and brutally shot first in the buttocks, a reference to his homosexual proclivities and then as an intense and bitter reflection of Antonio’s own homophobia, he shoots him the anus. Lorca does not die immediately and in a spark of revenge begins to recite a poem he had composed for his male lover