Ramon is a convict. A camera follows his daily routine on his day off from prison. All we see is how he turns to his books and reads. For Ramon, freedom is not within him, but rather in his relationship with narratives, characters, and the worlds they inhabit. He finds freedom in imagination.

Iván Blanco’s documentary short is based on observation and on precisely mapping out the relationship between the film’s creative team and the protagonist. In the context of films set in prisons, this portrait stands out with the interest it shows in understanding what and how its protagonist thinks when he opens the cover of a book as if pulling back a curtain.