Seville, Slowly

The foundation sends archivist Carmen López to Seville with a brief: catalogue and digitise the Montoya Collection - three generations of materials documenting flamenco in Andalucía. The collection lives in a house on Calle Betis in Triana. The house belongs to Rafael Montoya, who did not request an archivist and does not want his family's papers reorganised according to external logic.Carmen arrives with her own boxes, her own system, and a professional commitment to imposing order on chaos. Rafael meets her with the complete tolerance of someone who has lived with disorder so long it has become invisible. He argues with her cataloguing decisions. She argues with his refusal to understand that an archive that exists only in memory is not an archive.What neither of them expects is what the papers contain.*Seville, Slowly* is literary romance about archival work, flamenco's oral tradition, and the spring that changes how two people understand what they're doing with their lives. It follows Carmen and Rafael across April in Seville - the papers, the arguments, the discoveries in the archive, and the slow recognition that they might be working toward something together.