SPANISH KINDNESS

Chesed Sephardi / Avraham B. Yehoshua Ir Mozes, a film director, arrives in Santiago de Compostela in Spain with Ruth, his veteran actress, for a retrospective held there in honor of his films. On the wall above their bed in the hotel he discovers a reproduction of an unfamiliar painting, in which a young woman is breastfeeding an elderly prisoner. Moses is not aware of the long European tradition of "Roman grace", but in his opinion the painting realizes a bold scene conceived by his screenwriter, Trigano, which was meant to take place in their seventh joint film, over thirty years ago. The scene was canceled in the middle of filming because of the commotion caused by Ruth, who refused to perform it. How and why was the painting hung in their room now? The cancellation of the scene at the time led to a final rift between Moses and Trigno, the screenwriter of all his first films, and even caused the severance of the relationship between Trigno and Ruth, his childhood sweetheart in the