In the forests at the foot of the Spanish Pyrenees, wild boar are hunted. When the hunters stop for a bite to eat, one of the hunting dogs approaches with a shoe. The hunters set out to investigate and find the corpse of Montse Claveras, a beautiful young girl who lived a pretty wild life. But why has her face been mutilated? The female lieutenant of the Guardia Civil, Cifuentes (played by Rossy de Palma, well known from the films of Pedro Almodovar), starts her investigation. Safont, the coroner, takes her with him to a goose farm where she hears that during the Carlist war around 1870 there was a drama in the Claveras family. Since then a curse seems to rest on the family.It also becomes apparent that Montse had a good last weekend. She quarrelled with the hippy Pep, went out with the factory director’s son who plays in a punk band and visited a Negro, an illegal immigrant to Spain. But who saw her last?Joaquín Jorda situated his Twin Peaks-like murder mystery in the forests far from Barcelona, but just as in David Lynch’s television series, the countryside is far from unspoilt. Drugs and alcohol abuse, racism and nationalism are just as prevalent as in the big city. But in the countryside everything has a prior history and this is what Jorda shows gracefully.
