It stars Macarena García alongside Nacho Sánchez, Ingrid García Jonsson, Mireia Oriol, Luka Peros, Lucía Juárez and Celso Bugallo.

The plot tracks a young actress (Noemí) returning from New York to Spain to attend a potentially career-changing audition.

[6] The Art of Return was presented at the 77th Venice International Film Festival on 8 September 2020.

Miguel Ángel Pizarro of eCartelera ranked the film number 3 on the top ten Spanish films of 2020, considering that Macarena García offers one of the best performances of her career, and that the film is one of those hidden gems, to be delighted with because it is a discovery, a small miracle, one of those that leave a long aftertaste in the viewer.

[12] Sergi Sánchez of La Razón rated it 3 out of 5 stars, highlighting García's performance playing a character with whom it is not easy to empathize ("so Rohmerian in her self-deceptions and egoisms") as the best thing about the film, while citing the not-very-credible escene in the art gallery with García Jonsson as a negative point.