film profile] plays Paul, a successful musician accused of abuse by his former partner, Irene. While he awaits the date of the trial, he lives in a luxurious villa on Ibiza together with his son, Robert, a sensitive boy who simultaneously acts as a helper and virtually a servant. The young boy still maintains a strong emotional bond with Lena, Irene’s daughter, who dreams of studying in Vienna. Meanwhile, all of the tension being generated by their parents is starting to have an irreversible effect on them…
Illustrated with animations courtesy of
Cristina Guisado García,
The Diver Inside shines a spotlight on a subject that’s not always sufficiently well explained: the children of abusers and their victims – especially when they are at particularly sensitive ages – find it difficult and painful to accept what is happening, and this has an impact on them as a by-product, causing profound psychological damage that is hard to detect and rectify. This is why the Austrian