Second Origin
Second Origin is a 2015 Spanish film directed by Bigas Luna and Carles Porta, co-produced by Produccions Audiovisuals Antàrtida and Ipso Facto Films. It is an adaptation written by Bigas Luna, Carles Porta and Carmen Chaves of the novel by the Spanish writer Manuel de Pedrolo.[1]
Plot
Alba is a 20-year-old girl who lives with her father of English origin in a farmhouse in a place near the city of Lleida. They have lived there for eighteen months, after Alba’s mother died of cancer in London and her father decided to move to his wife’s birthplace.
Alba teaches English to Dídac, a 10-year-old-boy who loves football and tractors. One day as Alba is returning home on her motorbike, she sees three boys throwing Dídac into the lake. Without a moment’s hesitation, Alba dives in to save him. When they come up to the surface, everything around them has been reduced to ruins. They realise that they are the only two survivors. Together they must start from scratch to rebuild their lives and those of the whole of humanity.
Cast
- Rachel Hurd-Wood as Alba
- Andrés Batista as Dídac (boy)
- Ibrahim Mané as Dídac (adult)
- Sergi López as The Man