Set in Ripoll in 2017, ‘The Rift’ follows Pol Khaled, a teenage boy raised by his Catalan mother after his Moroccan father’s disappearance. Caught between two cultures and fully claimed by neither, Pol drifts through the summer with quiet anger, moving between friends, family and institutions that see him as a problem to be managed rather than a person to be understood. A violent incident in a nightclub becomes a point of no return, forcing Pol to confront the consequences of his actions. As he tries to rebuild his life, Pol uncovers traces of his absent father and an inherited identity he never knew he carried. During a moment of risk while climbing with his closest friend, Pol experiences an unexpected sense of calm that draws him towards faith. He approaches religion as a form of order and spiritual belonging denied to him elsewhere. As he grows closer to a local religious leader, what once felt like guidance starts to reveal a different shape. With the town fracturing and the independence referendum approaching, Pol is forced to confront the distance between belief, violence, loss and responsibility.