Julio Lumbreras was one of the first people in Spain to be hospitalized with Covid-19.
 | By Christine Kecher Senior Commissioning Editor, Op-Docs |
In February 2020, Julio Lumbreras entered the intensive care unit of a hospital outside Madrid struggling to breathe. A day later, he was induced into a coma by his medical team. |
He did not know that Covid-19 had arrived in Spain. He was one of the first patients in the country to be hospitalized with the disease. |
After 57 days fighting for his life, Julio woke up to a world he didn't recognize. Spain was engulfed in a pandemic with no end in sight. He had many questions about what had happened to him and what his family had gone through in the nearly two months he was in a coma. |
His son, Mario, and daughter-in-law, Laura Brasero, wanted to help fill in the gaps — so they gathered the photos, voice messages, videos and text messages that they had collected during his hospital stay. That project became "57 Days," our latest offering from Op-Docs, Times Opinion's series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers. |
The film, Mario wrote, tells "the story of those excruciating, uncertain weeks." |
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