A moving, personal journey to one's own roots, a film that, although set within a single family, breaks with collective shame and repression. This time, Carla Simón takes us to Spanish Galicia to recreate a summer from her own youth. Seventeen-year-old Marina arrives in the town of Vigo to retrieve a document necessary for her student scholarship. A seemingly trivial, bureaucratic requirement unearths a family secret, testifying to a truth hidden for years, breaking the conspiracy of silence. Simón is a master at portraying family: its hidden structure, its sensitive spaces, its rituals, its masquerades. The arrival of Marina, a missing link in the chain of memories and generations, activates a repressed past and internal conflicts. The edges of the drama are softened by the poetic, incredibly sensual language of Romería, where different timelines converge, the past—literally—comes to life, and materials from a private archive are woven into the fiction.