Spain, winter 1939. AMong the hundreds of thousand of people crossing the bordering seeking refuge in France, the Lamana family get separated, hoping to be reunited in the neighbouring country. A shocking, real account, these diaries recount the experiences of a father and son in various concentration camps and French villages; the terrible conditions they suffer in Argelès-sur-Mer, the confusion of a refugee in Ornans and lives in suspense, the search for help to be reunited once more, anger at the fall of Madrid... the uncertainty of the future.