A car crash that kills both her parents sends 19-year-old Leah to a coastal town in All That We Never Were, a Spanish-American drama about grief and rebuilding a shattered sense of self.
What is All That We Never Were about?
Director Jorge Alonso builds this 2026 drama-romance around Leah, who at nineteen loses both parents in a sudden accident and is uprooted to a seaside community to live under the guardianship of Axel, her brother's closest friend. The move strips away everything familiar at once — home, routine, the people she knew — and replaces it with a stranger's house and a coastline she has no history with. Nightmares follow her from the crash, and the film tracks how she tries to hold together an identity that the accident has cracked open. Margarida Corceiro leads as Leah opposite Maxi Iglesias as Axel, with Natalia Rodríguez, Sebastián Zurita, Adriana Hormigos, Marta Solaz Cruz, Javier Tolosa and Richard Holmes filling out the town around them. Shot as a Spain–United States co-production, the film runs 108 minutes and belongs to the coming-of-age tradition that treats loss as the starting point of a story rather than its climax.
About the cast
Corceiro takes the lead role of Leah, with Iglesias playing Axel, the friend-turned-guardian whose presence anchors her in the new town. The wider ensemble — Rodríguez, Zurita, Hormigos, Solaz Cruz, Tolosa and Holmes — rounds out the coastal community that becomes the backdrop to her recovery.
Context & significance
The film's pairing of Drama and Romance genres signals a story less concerned with plot mechanics than with emotional aftermath, a register common to grief-centered coming-of-age films made across Spanish and American co-productions. Its coastal setting and the guardian arrangement at its center place it alongside other films that use displacement — a forced move to unfamiliar ground — as the engine for a character's slow reckoning with loss.
Watching All That We Never Were on Ktime
All That We Never Were is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking audiences full access to the original Spanish-American production. A free K-Time account is all that's needed to watch, and the platform's Farsi interface is built specifically for Iranian viewers abroad.