A woman travels to the Galician city of Vigo to meet her biological father’s family. Like her mother, he died of AIDS when she was very young. Through her encounters with the family, she attempts to piece together the story of her father and the love he shared with her mother.

Tracing the emotional ebb and flow of a bracing pilgrimage to the past, Carla Simón’s soul-searching film immerses its stormy secrets in imagery of aqua-blue iridescence. Anchored by the lead’s confident performance, Romería swirls with the fundamental mysteries of family and inheritance.