'Thirst', when the homeland is where it rains. Virginia Mendoza draws on her family memories in a town in La Mancha to create a history of water through its absence.

Thirst connects her grandfather's resources for locating and digging wells with the inhabitants of other dry places who also look at the sky with anguish. In ancient cultures, drought was a symptom that rulers had lost the favor of divinity and thirst continues to precede revolutions. According to a UN report, the absence of water has killed 650,000 people in the last fifty years and is estimated to have caused seven hundred million displacements in 2023.