It stars Ariadna Gil and Ramón Fontserè alongside Joan Dalmau, María Botto and Diego Luna.

Lola, a novelist who has abandoned her writing career, tracks down the details of a true story from the last days of the Spanish Civil War.

The writer and Falangist honcho Rafael Sánchez Mazas faced a firing squad along with fifty other prisoners, but managed to escape into the woods.

The novelist pieces together the fragments of the story, plagued by contradictions and mysterious characters, and comes to realize that her search for the truth is a personal quest of self-discovery.

[4] In the transfer from novel to film, the character of Javier Cercas becomes Lola Cercas (changing the gender of the lead character) and Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño is replaced by Gastón Elquiza, a Mexican university student with a family background of exiles of the Spanish civil war.