Suitable only for 12 years and over
The film introduces us to Elsa, an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December long weekend. She finds refuge in work, although it is more of a flight forward. She works non-stop and, without realizing it, she does not give herself enough time to mourn her mother’s absence…
Until a panic attack forces her to stop and take a break. Her partner, Bonifacio, is her lifeline in those moments of crisis. Elsa decides to travel to the island of Lanzarote accompanied by her friend Patricia, who also needs to get away from Madrid, while Bonifacio stays in the city…
The story of these three characters, and some others, is told in parallel to that of the screenwriter and film director Raúl Durán, intermingling fiction and reality. Because ‘Bitter Christmas’ develops how life and fiction are linked in an indissoluble way, even painful at times.
