ISPANSI
ISPANSI is the story of Paula and Alvaro, a woman and a man belonging to opposed social and ideological classes. Fortunes of life have brought them both in the USSR to accompany those exilees who are called in Spain the “War children” (Los niños de la guerra), 30,000 children sent abroad in 1937-38 by the Republican government (3,000 to the Soviet Union) to spare them Franco’s bombings during the Civil War.
The film shows the odyssey of one of those groups of children and accompanying adults, since the German invasion of Russia in 1941. They flee north from Stalingrad and spend the harsh winter in a village of the Volga German Republic, before hunger forces them out again, and walk to the Ural Mountains.
Though they are both losers in the face of History and ideology, Alvaro and Paula will get closer during this terrible journey, and grow a love cleared of political hatred.