Benidorm, communism, and environmental struggle. Through her family’s photographic archive, Koba opens up an imaginary of political resistance in one of the most touristic cities in Spain. Starting from a series of photographs of the Terra Mítica fire, a search for memory unfolds, tracing a dialogue between the territory and the traces of speculation.

Heaven is a closed nightclub introduces, through the narratives of three of the author’s relatives, a political and intimate portrait that invites us to redirect our focus towards the mountains rather than the sea. A small countercurrent gesture that shifts attention to the places that conceal the consequences of mass tourism in the city: a landfill buried beneath a theme park, an intentional fire that burned an area equivalent to around 600 football fields, and leachates descending from the mountains into the city. The search for the irreparable traces left on the natural landscape, in turn, dialogues with postcard images of an impersonal paradise of concrete—a pinnacle of fantasy and entertainment where anything the tourist desires can happen. The documentary brings these two images together, opening a space from which to reflect on the city’s speculative processes.