Breaking away from his previous approach of basing his creations on the works of Shakespeare, director Matías Piñeiro instead tells a love story based on a different literary source. The book he adopts this time is Dialogues with Leucò by the Italian author Cesare Pavese. In particular, he focuses on the “Sea Foam” episode featuring the poet Sappho, a figure who actually lived but of whom little is known apart from a few works of her poetry. The film interweaves its characters’ lives with text excerpts and footnotes while following the associations that they evoke. Piñeiro assembled all these stories to capture in his 16mm camera. The original Spanish title(tú me abrasas) contains an untranslatable example of wordplay, and the film delicately records beautiful images, objects, landscapes, and people in a way that both embraces(abrazar) and burns(abrasar) us. (Sung MOON)