The feature debut of writer/director Alfonso Quijada, The Whisper of Silence stars
Laura Osmo as Josefina, a young woman who hopes to put a troubled
past life behind her when she acquires a job as a coffee picker. When her
brother falls in with a pair of hoodlums, her plan to build a new life is
disrupted.
The Whisper of Silence is on UK/ROI VOD from March 27th,
making it the first El Salvadoran film to receive a general release in the
UK and Ireland.
Check out the trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
The Whisper of Silence (El Suspiro del Silencio) is the story of Josefina Moreno (Laura Osma), a coffee picker with a unique sense of smell and ambitions to follow her passion and become a coffee taster.
Despite being traumatised and living in fear following a violent incident in her recent past, the young woman begins to learn all about the coffee-tasting craft with the help of her godmother (a retired taster) who has taken in Josefina and her brother, Alfredo, after the death of their mother. But with Alfredo having given up school and falling in with two local hoodlums, trouble arises when the trio devise a plan to rob a mansion, and their reckless actions may put an end to Josefina’s dreams…
