Taking place over four decades, Strangers follows the lives of a dysfunctional Catalan family whose history is marked by two traumatic events. First, the drawn out death of the family matriarch brings domestic confrontations to a head.

Later the arrival of new neighbors, Moroccan immigrants, triggers a breakdown in the apparently harmonious family relations as their past and present collide and they discover that the true strangers are the people they have shared their whole lives with.

Strangers is the third time veteran Catalan filmmaker Ventura Pons has adapted one of Sergie Belbel’s plays. Pons started his career in theatre before turning to film with his successful debut Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait. Since then over 20 films have followed, predominantly with an emphasis on Catalan life and culture. Like most of his other works Strangers is shot in the Catalan language and looks at the impact of modernity on a traditional region.