The murder, the investigative journalist and the darker story which emerges, are film-makers' inventions, partly based on rumours for which there was never any evidence. Based around the 1921 wreck of the Santa Isabel off the island of Salvora in northern Spain, the wreck itself and the heroism of the women are historical fact. Reviewed by freydis-e 6 / 10 Odd atmospheric mystery with a bleak and original feel But little by little he verifies that that night too many terrible "coincidences" happened on the island. An Argentine journalist, León (Darío Grandinetti), goes to Sálvora to cover the news of the shipwreck. Everything that happens since that night is going to shake and change this island forever. Rowing only by ear, due to the thick fog and the closed night, they manage to save 50 people. Three young islanders, María (Nerea Barros), Josefa (Victoria Teijeiro) and Cipriana (Ana Oca), decide to launch into the sea in a small traditional boat. The only hope of the survivors who were struggling not to crash into the rocks were the few women, old men and children who lived in this place. That night there were no men on the island, they were celebrating Christmas on dry land. In the early morning of January 2, 1921, amid a thick fog, the steam Santa Isabel, with 260 emigrants bound for Buenos Aires, sank off the rugged and rugged coast of the island of Sálvora.
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