A group of women, called old because they are in their sixties, seventies, eighties, or nineties” meet around a table. They speak, through words, images and sound, of the passage of time, of love and its absences, of (in)dependence, of care, of old age, and of death. They come from four Galician provinces, from cities and villages, all of them representatives of an invisible care system that has sustained us and continues doing it.
They met to perform a memory and projection exercise, which begins by sharing lives shaped by a culture of love based on sacrifice. Together, they review and reconstruct, through individual and collective experience, a more just and balanced care system that reclaims the power and necessity of being, listening, accompanying, and feeding the different stages of life.
In times of conflict and haste, where the value of lives is measured by their productivity, When the tomatoes mature asserts the subversive value of care, and the need to update, balance and visualize that essential labor through the present codes / through the lens of the present