
O que Arde (“Lo que Arde” in Spanish, “What It Burns” in English) may be a rural drama that follows Amador, a forty-something arsonist who is free from jail after to accomplish two-thirds of his imprisonment to burn a whole mount. Not having friends, money or other resources, Amador returns his natal range in an undetermined so-small mountain town located within the province of Lugo (Galicia; northwest to Spain), living together with his aging mother Benedicta. Quiet, calm and man of few words, Amador bears silently the mock of the some neighbors whose don’t forgot his misdemeanor by the hearth he caused, while tries to redirect his life caring the livestock of the farm and interesting about Elena, town’s veterinarian. At an equivalent time, a worried Benedicta talks Inazio, who is restoring ancient ruined houses to show them in rural resorts for tourists, trying to find employment for Amador, within the hope that her beloved son can a minimum of to possess a traditional life. But the peaceful lifetime of the town dominated by the inclemency of rain and fog ends abruptly when a replacement fire lights within the mount on the brink of it, threatening not only houses of the town, but neighbors. tt8212958