The filmmaker Irene Gutiérrez proposes a cinematographic journey in a self-portrait that bears witness both to the turbulent period lived in Spain and to the reception of the countries that contributed to the construction of a new life in exile.

This historical review has been possible thanks to more than a dozen private collections guarded in film archives and shot in domestic formats by family, friends and acquaintances of their protagonists in different scenarios. Thus, the spectator travels from the coasts of Mexico to the train tracks of the Córdoba station, when Dolores Ibárruri returns to Spain. The work shows the lendakari José Antonio Agirre, Lluis Companys, president of the Generalitat, the burial of Largo Caballero in Paris in Père Lachaise, the same cemetery where years later Juan Negrín would be buried. It also includes a sample of the unusual films of the Alicante filmmaker José Ramón Clemente, images of the Russian exile of the Republican writer Alejandra Soler and her husband, Arnaldo Azzati, and snapshots of the construction of fishing boats on the beach of Las Arenas.

The project is an initiative of the Filmoteca Española in collaboration with different regional film libraries, Cineteca Nacional de México and the research project Cinemah.mov.

The production is part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and is the continuation of the project "Vestiges in Super-8: an amateur chronicle of the years of change", curated by Elena Oroz and Xose Prieto.