The Island of Lies

Spain, 1921. A terrible shipwreck kept secret for far too long

5/14/20201h 34min5.6/10(21 TMDB votes)

DramaMysteryThriller

Directed by Paula Cons

Plot

Galicia, northern Spain, January 2, 1921. The steamship Santa Isabel, sailing towards Argentina with more than two hundred emigrants on board, sinks off the coast of Sálvora Island. Three island women, María, Josefa and Cipriana, who have bravely set sail aboard a fragile skiff to save the shipwrecked, are treated as heroes by the cynical authorities; but León, an inquisitive and tenacious Argentinean journalist, starts asking uncomfortable questions.