Siege (Asedio) 2023
Sinopsis
During an eviction procedure in a troubled area of Madrid, police officer Dani makes a shocking discovery.
Cast
- Natalia de Molina as Dani
- Bella Agossou as Nasha
- Oscar Eribo as Little
- Francisco Reyes as Trajano
- Fran Cantos as Coria
- Chani Martín [es] as Cervantes
- Jorge Kent as Rivero
- Efraín Rodríguez as Lolo
- Lucas Nabor
- Federico Pérez Rey
- Luis Hacha
- Fernando Valdivielso
- Karlos Aurrekoetxea
- Alejandro Casaseca
Review
Dani (Natalia de Molina) is a rookie member of Madrid’s police riot squad. The government has been trying to clean up the area, and the squad has been tasked with “removals”—aka evictions—of illegals and those who refuse to leave their apartments. Dani doesn’t get a lot of respect from some of her fellow male troopers, especially after a recent incident involving one of her depressed evictees leaping from his balcony while she wasn’t looking. Dani’s unit has just been deployed to a rundown apartment building in a particularly bad neighborhood, where they are met with a crowd of angry residents throwing rocks and other objects. A second unit has also been sent to provide backup, as her team makes their way into the building and starts evicting those on their list.
While exploring one apartment, Dani comes across a stash of hidden money, and is faced with a dilemma. At first she decides to leave the money, but then goes back to retrieve it as she could really use the money to help her ailing mother. When the backup cops show up with the owner of the apartment—the manager of the building, who’s been skimming rent money from the owner—Dani hides and watches as the corrupt cops demand a cut of the money he’s been hoarding. When he refuses, things escalate, and that’s when the other cops realize that Dani had been watching the events the whole time. They try to reason with Dani, but it’s clear that they are desperate to get rid of any evidence or witnesses, and so she runs. Dani now finds herself trapped in this building, with a half-dozen crooked cops hunting her down, and other various angry residents. The only person she can turn to for help is Nasha (Bella Agossou), a young mother she just tried to evict an hour earlier. As Dani tries to make it out of the building alive, she also discovers how the system she works for has harmed many honest people just trying to make a life for their families.
