Three Goodbyes

After what seemed like an insignificant argument, Marta and Antonio separate. He is a promising chef who takes refuge in his cooking. Meanwhile, she sinks into a silence that goes beyond heartbreak. An empty silence that feels like a reflection of the pain she feels inside.

Little by little, Marta discovers that with each passing day, she has less desire to eat. Despite having recently gone through a breakup, she understands that this lack of appetite goes deeper. There is something within her that she cannot decipher. She decides to see what is happening and there she discovers something she did not expect to find. Hidden in her body was an illness that was worsening over time.

Despite the news, Marta turns her life around. What would have once crushed her or darkened the shadows of her pain now becomes an impetus to change her life. She takes each moment differently and experiences things from a perspective far removed from her shadows and plains: food regains its flavor, music reaches her like a breath of life, and desire awakens the urgency to feel alive without fear.

The film ''Three Goodbyes'' is an adaptation of the book 'Tres cuencos' by Italian writer and activist Michela Murgia. It tells an intimate and poetic story. Despite life's setbacks, a person is capable of being reborn, leaving their loss behind and surrendering to the senses like a balm for the pain of the soul.

With sensitivity and tenderness, director Isabel Coixet weaves a love letter to life. Every second of the twenty-four hours matters, and silences weigh as much as words, where the fissures of the soul are doors to a fuller existence.