Matka Edeniin

Two male artists travelling in winter in the famous La Rioja wine-growing region of Northern Spain. One of the men, named Ignacio – a Basque modern music composer living in Finland – is weighed down by traumatic guilt at his daughter's car accident in Helsinki: she is in a medical coma and will be returned to consciousness in 10 days. The other man, named Comaz – a Swiss painter living in Spain – is suffering from artist's block; the model for his drawings of hands has announced she no longer wishes to continue. The men go to see paintings showing human hands in churches and monasteries and discuss such topics as Dante's concept of Paradise and the meaning of faith and prayer. They finally end up in the chapel of the renowned Remelluri wine estate at La Rioja Alavesa where the Basque painter Vicente Ameztoy created his own visual interpretation of Adam and Eve's last moment of happiness in Eden. While gazing at the painting the travellers experience a mental miracle and understand something fundamental about the meaning of forgiveness. (oficjalny tekst dystrybutora)