Synopsis
Pau (5) lives with Alma (36) and Iggy (8). Until now, the three of them have been happy as a single-parent-dog family. But Father’s Day arrives, and for the first
time, Pau has nightmares: at school, they told him that if he doesn’t have a father, it’s because he must be dead. Suddenly, everything around him reminds Pau that
he is “different,” that the “normal” thing is to have a dad. Alma also doesn’t quite know how to approach the topic. She tries to distract Pau with the stories she invents, but it doesn’t work. Pau has more and more questions. Alma then tells him how their family started at a fertility clinic.
The waters seem to calm down until Pau sees a family crossing the street, carrying a child like him on their shoulders. The child laughs heartily. How could he laugh like that? Lifting a child in the air requires two people, and he only has Alma. Later, a su-
permarket cashier offers to buy a lottery ticket for Father’s Day draw. Desperate, and to
demonstrate her greatest superpower to the cashier (but above all to show it to Pau), Alma reveals that she is the one actually writing this movie. To prove it, she makes the mustaches and ties of the Father’s Day decorations turn into invisible men who sing
and dance about how wonderful a mother she is.
Pau is not impressed by this opportunistic musical number. The cashier challenges Alma: if she is really writing the movie, why not make Pau smile? But Pau is clear that he won’t smile just because his mother tells him to, and he leaves the supermarket.
Alma realizes that something more sincere is needed for her son to stop being sad.
Perhaps she has to tell him that she will always be there to answer his questions about
who he is, even if they are uncomfortable. Perhaps together, they can imagine how they can cross that crosswalk flying, even if no one holds Pau’s hand on the other side.