On the slopes of the Pyrenees in Navarra, the construction of the Itoiz reservoir in the nineteen-nineties flooded seven villages and three nature reserves. Today, a bare strip of land at a height above sea level of 592 m, marks a dividing line in the valley scenery. Water lies below it; life goes on above it.

Maddi Barber (Lakabe, 1988) is a filmmaker. She graduated in Audiovisual Communication and went on to complete a Master's degree in Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester. In 2015 she took part in Zinergentziak #15 (motivated by TyF and ZINEBI) where she collectively directed the feature film Distantziak. In 2018, together with Christopher Murray and Charlotte Hoskins, she made the short film Yours Truly, which is part of the official section of the Punto de Vista festival.