Enric Marco was chairman of Spain's most important organisation for camp victims and for years spoke convincingly about the Flossenbürg concentration camp, even in parliament. Until it became apparent he had never been there. Now he makes the journey he never had to make back then.
Enric Marco, ex-president of Spain’s main deportees’ association, embarks on a car trip to Germany, a demythologising journey into his past. Two years earlier, a historian had shown that he wasn’t the member of the Resistance he had claimed to be, and that he’d made up the stories of his experiences in a concentration camp that he had been recounting on television. Now, Marco retraces the route of his 1941 train journey as part of a convoy of workers sent by Franco to Hitler. This trip, which will lead him to the Kiel prison where he would spend a year accused of spreading communist propaganda, before being absolved and returning to Spain, intersects with his oft-recounted imaginary journey at various points: from the French resistance to the concentration camps in cattle trucks - the fate suffered by thousands of exiled Spanish republicans after the Civil War.
The trip and the film end at Flossenbürg concentration camp: the place he never set foot in during the war, the place where he forged himself as the survivor that he can't manage to leave behind.