The third part of the Trilogia sobre la identitat catalana  [Catalan identity trilogy] by Jordi Casanovas, after Una història catalana [A Catalan history] and Pàtria [Homeland]. A journey through our collective characteristics, this time focusing on the family. What we are and we will be?

30 August 1999. It's St. Felix's Day. Cristina has invited the whole family for lunch. Her parents and her sister live in Moja. Her brother lives in Vilanova. They all meet up, as they have always done for the Vilafranca festival, with their partners and children. But the patriarch's illness is getting worse and soon decisions will have to be taken. This might be their last festival meal together. Taking decisions may involve making big sacrifices. Some of the secrets and thoughts that have never been disclosed may be revealed today, between the starter and the main course. Today everything ends, and today perhaps everything starts. In Vilafranca.

All sad experiences become less sad when they are turned into fiction. That's why I've wanted to put this story on stage for years. Arguments, challenges and silences. Sibling enmity. Spite and resentment. Squabbles over four miserable pieces of a vineyard that end in a way we would not like them to.
A unique story and a common story. Everyone has experienced it in their own family. Everyone has heard of similar cases. Everyone could tell a lot of stories and would become emotional remembering them. The family is our first society. And perhaps by watching how a Catalan family moves, thinks and feels, we can find out how an entire country truly moves, thinks and feels. Now, more than ever, I need to ask myself questions about our personal, family and collective identity. And I'm sure that it's not simply my own personal desire. Only theatre audiences know that we can talk to strangers without speaking a single word. So let's let the theatre do its job. Silently, and almost without being aware of it, we begin to talk to the woman in the third row, the boy in the seventh row or that man in the front row of the theatre.
Jordi Casanovas