Starting in Navarre in 1944,[4] The plot begins with Lucía, a young woman, returning to her village after nine years.

Lucía explains that she has to come back - supposedly to earn money - because her mother has five other children.

We can also see the soldiers' office, which has the phrase “Todo por la patria” (All for the Fatherland) painted above the door.

In one scene, the sergeant orders Sebas to drink a whole bottle of castor oil because he has said a curse word.

Soon after, the Boss's wife (Sole) runs to tell Lucía and Teresa that the soldiers are coming for Manuel.

Manuel runs to the mountains to join the maquis (the guerrilla fighters who live there), so instead of him, the soldiers punish Rosario, her mother.

After that, Lucía brings Genaro some papers to the mountains to help the maquis, and her relationship with Manuel becomes romantic again.

The guerrillas try to keep it, Genaro cannot have it without the letters from his son who is already dead, and Rosario and Lola finally lose it.

At the end of the film, Manuel, Teresa, and Hilario are dead, and Lucia cannot trust Lola, her best friend, who has betrayed her own family.

In "Broken Silence," the relationships that the characters have with their families support them, but they also collapse under the pressure of war.

At the end of the film, her brother Manuel, her parents Rosario and Matías, and her lover Sebas are dead.

The focus is on the bad and sad effects of the Franco regime and the impact it has on the lives of everyone in town.

Good characters are those who help the guerrilla resistance (the Spanish Maquis) and do not betray their friends by giving their names to the soldiers.

Several rebels - including Matías – want to be more violent, and believe that it is necessary to kill many people to win the fight.

At the beginning of the film, everything was covered in light - the atmosphere matched the hope carried by the main characters and the guerrillas of the town.

During her visit to the town, she witnessed the murders of her aunt, Don Hilario, Manuel, and Rosario.

With his use of lighting, the director forces us to feel the same loss of hope as the characters in Broken Silence.

In 1946, the guerrillas or maquis sing political songs at the bar, and share a sense of hope.

But at the end of the film this quote form Bertold Brecht appears: “Will they sung too in dark times?