Flags by David Alfaro

Flags distinguish, flags unite.

What flags should not do is separate.
A country divided, a family split in two. Chaos outside. Chaos inside. Two parallel stories, the same war behind.
As a result of the Catalan procés, the lives of four women take on dark protagonism.
On the one hand, three sisters clash fiercely after the referendum on October 1st, when one of them takes her elderly mother to vote, who is hit on the head as a result of a political brawl. On the other hand, a young girl is reported missing to the authorities, and the media circus around her speculates that she is the first possible death as a result of the political conflict.
“Banderas” symbolises the power of the media as creators of public opinion trends, which often deepens the gaps that do not allow for agreement and the union of peoples, and its replication on a smaller scale within families, observ- ing the prevailing customs and values in them, as the triggers of passionate feelings and radical thoughts that can even cost the very bonds of blood.
The four women will intertwine their destinies: the eldest sister will approach the family of the disappeared woman in order to support her “Spanishist” line of thought and recover her journalistic career; the middle sister will fight against the macho violence suffered in her two long marriages, both of which are politically opposed, and the youngest will fight against the first sister also for thinking differently, until her mother’s illness brings them face to face with the real reasons for which they should fight.