| Summary: | This paper proposes the study of the film On the Empty Balcony (En el balcón vacío, García Ascot, 1961), based on the work of María Luisa Elío Bernal (screenwriter & leading role), regarding the meaning of the exile for the second generation of the Spanish exile in Mexico. The film shows, on the one hand, the tensions between the memory of this generation and the family and republican remembrance, and on the other hand, the tensions generated in the construction of their own identity. The film shows how the «nepantla» generation feels living on a time with no chance of having a self-sense of identity. The structure of the film focuses on the construction of the time-memory of the second generation of Spanish exile, through delirium experiences from the main character. Such delirium emerges (in the film as in Elío’s literature), as the only possible form of relationship with the reality and memory. The delirum as a form of utterance of the so called Hispano-Mexican generation, on which is built their own identity.
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