Writer Jorge Semprún embarks in his only film as a director on a quest about both Republican and Francoist memories. He builds this documentary around interviews taken in 1972 in both Spain and France including images from the Spanish Civil War archives and from current affairs media during Franco's dictatorship. On the 100th anniversary of Jorge Semprún’s birth, we can delve into how Semprún looked at the facts that drove him away from Spain and to France at a very early age.