After her parents died young from AIDS, 18-year-old Marina grew up with her mother's family in Catalonia. Now she is traveling to Vigo on the Galician Atlantic coast to meet her father Fon's family for the first time and see with her own eyes where her parents experienced their short, wild love affair in the 1980s, at the dawn of the end of Franco's dictatorship. The actual reason for Marina's trip is a simple formality: she needs her father's death certificate for her scholarship at film school. To her astonishment, the document states that Fon had no children, a mistake that could easily be corrected with the signature of her grandparents.

Marina is welcomed with open arms by her family in Galicia. She immerses herself in a buzzing world full of new aunts, uncles, cousins, and stories that contradict each other in strange ways. Her arrival stirs up long-buried emotions, repressed feelings, shame, pain, and tenderness. Behind the stories, the lies, the love, and the silence of the others, a picture emerges of what her parents' lives might have been like. Accompanied by her mother's diary, Marina embarks on a stirring journey into a memory she must create for herself.

Carla Simón's semi-autobiographical film premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or.

'Romería' is also a portrait of a coastline, the coast of Galicia, which is rarely seen in films, a maritime paradise of bays and cliffs that felt the full force of drug trafficking in the 1980s, leaving behind a generation of young people who, in their hunger for freedom, burned their wings and their lives.- Paris Match

A film that gently touches on the wounds of the past and transforms them into cinema... What begins as a seemingly simple matter, signing for a scholarship, becomes a quiet examination of the legacy of addiction, AIDS, and intergenerational silence. -The Hollywood Reporter