• Location: Caló des Monjo
• Title: White Lines
• Year: 2019
• Directors: Nick Hamm, Luis Prieto, and Ashley Way
• Main cast: Laura Haddock, Nuno Lopes, Marta Milans
• Production company: Netflix

In episode 7 of the first season of White Lines, three Vespas travel single file along a path through pine forests. The sound of the engines mingles with laughter. On them ride a young couple and two friends. The group arrives at Caló des Monjo, a secluded and luminous cove with transparent waters and light-coloured rocks that reflect the Mediterranean sun. The movement stops. In the foreground, another couple rests, surrendering to the slow rhythm of the place. They are kissing, oblivious to everything else.

There are glances, exchanged smiles, a shared sense of freedom. The cove thus becomes an ephemeral refuge where friendship, desire, and youth converge, unknowingly foreshadowing the emotional rifts that run through the episode. While, in parallel, the dinner organised by David to honour Axel resurrects old tensions and tests relationships and loyalties, this scene in Calvià functions as a visual counterpoint: light versus darkness, hedonism versus conflict.

True to the overall tone of White Lines, the sequence combines aesthetic beauty with emotional depth. The series uses the Mediterranean landscape not just as a backdrop, but as a character in itself: a seductive setting that intensifies the excesses, passions, and decisions that will define the protagonists. In Caló des Monjo, the camera captures that moment of near-perfect happiness that defines White Lines: vibrant, sensual, and, like everything else in the series, profoundly fragile.