SF IndieFest: The Invasion of the Barbarians

Valencia, 1939 – a Francoist lieutenant interrogates Esperanza, a museum curator protecting Prado masterpieces during Spain’s civil-war collapse. A fascist colonel covets one painting—The Invasion of the Barbarians—as a personal trophy. Eighty years later, her granddaughter Aurora fights bureaucracy and official silence to exhume Esperanza’s remains and give her a proper burial. Two intertwined timelines reveal how fascism, corruption, and the complicity of the Church scarred generations, and how one woman’s moral resistance becomes a legacy of defiance. – Lucy Hanna, SF IndieFest