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Josefa, Pepe, Carmen, Manuel Carmela, Ángeles, Juan, Loli, Susana and Pepita. A collective portrait of a community created because of the needs of the company. People united by salt, forged by time and sustained by nostalgia. Because of Salt is not a question, but rather the answer. A documentary that aspires to be a poem.

There is something profoundly “original” about this film: the origin of the oral history, origin of the species, origin of nature, even the origin of the cinema. Because, what else is needed to begin a story other than a wolf’s night howl? From that primitive moment on, everything is possible.

When an environment is dramatically disturbed, what possibilities for life remain? On the slopes of the Navarrese Pyrenees, the construction of the Itoiz dam in the 1990s flooded seven villages and three nature reserves. A strip of bare land, 592 metres above sea level, today marks a dividing line