In this film, "literature" rhymes with "woman". Director María Elorza's first feature film is an ode to four women who found in the pleasure of books and reading, a form of resistance to ignorance and fanaticism. One of them carried a library in the back of her car, another broke her finger when a bookcase fell on her and another read to tobacco workers. A collection of stories told through a plethora of materials (interviews, archive images, photographs, paintings, family films, intertitles, songs and film excerpts) with a simple aim: to reveal the civilising role of women in contemporary society.
A los libros y a las mujeres canto premiered at the San Sebastian festival and had its international premiere at the Rotterdam festival.