Snow White's father
Original title: El padre de Blancanieves
A high school teacher sits at home waiting for the supermarket delivery service. The delivery man is late, so she decides to leave. Hours later she finds that the shopping has been left at her neighbour’s house and that the frozen food has been spoiled. She phones the supermarket to complain. The next day, Saturday, she is still in her sleeping t-shirt when the doorbell rings: it is the delivery man, an Ecuadorian immigrant with a job at the local supermarket. The man says that because of her call he has been fired. The teacher regrets the incident, but the man insists: she is responsible for his dismissal, she must find him another job, if not he will always be there, at her front door or at the places that she visits every day, waiting. From that moment, the life of the teacher changes, as does that of her husband, her older daughter, who is an active member of a political movement, and finally, also the life of her 13-year-old son. With El padre de Blancanieves, Belén Gopegui, continues her acute investigation of the borders between private and public spaces.
A high school teacher sits at home waiting for the supermarket delivery service. The delivery man is late, so she decides to leave. Hours later she finds that the shopping has been left at her neighbour’s house and that the frozen food has been spoiled. She phones the supermarket to complain. The next day, Saturday, she is still in her sleeping t-shirt when the doorbell rings: it is the delivery man, an Ecuadorian immigrant with a job at the local supermarket. The man says that because of her call he has been fired. The teacher regrets the incident, but the man insists: she is responsible for his dismissal, she must find him another job, if not he will always be there, at her front door or at the places that she visits every day, waiting. From that moment, the life of the teacher changes, as does that of her husband, her older daughter, who is an active member of a political movement, and finally, also the life of her 13-year-old son. With El padre de Blancanieves, Belén Gopegui, continues her acute investigation of the borders between private and public spaces.
