Las Noches de Tefía

Between 1954 and 1966, in a desert area of Fuerteventura, there was a Francoist concentration camp known by the euphemistic name of Colonia Agrícola Penitenciaria de Tefía, one of many places where the regime sent those condemned by the law as vagrants and thugs who, from 54, it was implemented to also include homosexuals.

In the year 2004 Airam Betancor, one of those homosexual prisoners, is forced to remember the seventeen months of forced labor that he suffered in the colony when he was barely twenty years old. The investigations of a documentary filmmaker trying to give voice to the silent history of the penal colony force Airam to undertake a painful memory exercise that will cause many problems in his life. The sleepy memory of the terrible life in the colony is mixed with the stories that one of his barrack mates improvised at night to alleviate his misery. Charli, the fantastic storyteller, invented El Tindaya for all of them, a dazzling music hall where each one has her alter ego. A space of freedom in which, as her welcome theme says, the limit of the possible bursts when imagining.