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The Pain in Spain: An Outsiders Journey During It's COVID Crisis | Foreign Correspondent
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As the pandemic throws Spain into its worst crisis in a lifetime, reporter Lily Mayers moves to her ancestors’ country to see how it’s coping. Despite the hardship, Lily finds an inspiring resilience and a love of life.
A flamenco dancer with no stage, a restauranteur with no customers, a young woman who wouldn't mind catching COVID and a young doctor pushed to the limit.
These are the people a young Australian reporter encounters when she moves to Spain, the country of her ancestors, in the midst of its worst upheaval since the civil war.
Spain has been hit hard by the pandemic. Over seventy thousand people have died, there have been three waves of the virus and it's not over yet.
Australian Lily Mayers wants to find out how the famously sociable Spanish are coping with the crisis.
Filmed over six months, Into The Outbreak paints an intimate portrait of a country and people under pressure, struggling to survive a once-in-a-lifetime crisis.
In the tourist town of Barcelona, Helena Garriga, a successful restauranteur, is fighting to keep her business afloat. She’s had to close down two restaurants, let go of 20 staff and is now relying on charity for school fees.
“Many businesses like me are going to die. It’s impossible to survive”, she says. “I think it’s time for me to stop fighting and reconsider my business.”
Karime Amaya is one of Spain’s most famous flamenco dancers. Now she’s stuck at home with no stage, no audience and no income.
“Never before in my life have I had such a hard time”, she says. "I’ll never forget this time. It’s so tough.”
Mayers meets a group of young people for whom the idea of staying home is worse than catching the coronavirus.
“We have to enjoy ourselves but with a level of consciousness, of course, but we have to enjoy our life”, says Elena, a young entrepreneur.
In Madrid, Susana Pardo, a young doctor, feels like she’s been in a war zone.
“I cry on the subway, cry with my friends, with my parents”, she says. “We’ve found ourselves so overwhelmed we didn’t want to accept it any longer.”
But despite the difficulties, people are managing to adapt and survive.
Karime begins to help other artists in need. Susana starts an industrial campaign to improve doctors’ working conditions. Elena catches COVID. And Helena creates a new business.
“In this terrible pandemic, where people are losing jobs and family members and just everything is going wrong, the Spaniards have inside of them, this amazing way of just moving on and enjoying the moment”, says Helena.
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