Lucía’s heart misses a beat when she sees Juan in a Department Store. Not stopping to think about it, she decides to follow him to his house, the same house where twenty-eight years before, Juan saw Lucía for the first time and fell in love with her…
Then they were sixteen and invented a language to communicate across the balconies. Nut Juan was a humble boy from the Barrio, and Lucía’s parents had great plans for her. Having seen Juan, after so long, she realizes that he became the kind of man that her family wanted her to marry.
She is excited as she moves to live opposite Juan, she tries to approach him and to restart their silent dialogue between the balconies. But Juan has also changed and he does not to show the open wound opened the wound that she left in his heart when they were young.
A Lucía le da un vuelco el corazón cuadno se cruza con Juan en unos grandes almacenes. Sin dudarlo se decide a seguirle hasta su casa, la misma casa donde veinticinco años atrás, Juan vio por primera vez a Lucía y se enamoró…
Entonces tenían diecisiete años e inventaron un lenguaje común a través de los balcones. Pero Juan era un humilde chico de barrio, y los padres de Lucía tenían grandes planes para ella. Al ver a Juan, tanto tiempo después, se da cuenta de que todo a lo que ha renunciado por conseguir la posición que sus padres soñaban.
Lucía se traslada a vivir frente a la casa de Juan, trata de acercarse a él y reavivar aquel silencioso diálogo de balcones. Pero a Juan también le ha cambiado la vida y, sobre todo, no quiere que se abra la herida que Lucía dejó en su corazón cuando eran adolescentes.
Instituto Cervantes Library
Spanish and Latin American Films 
