If They Tell You I Fell

In the post Spanish civil war years Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories known as aventis the films original title in Catalan its original language These tales mix war stories local gossip comic book characters fantasy and real events The aventis told in this film are told in flashback In the mid 80s 45 or so years after the age of the aventis a doctor and a nursenun who grew up together and now are coworkers in a hospital identify the corpse of one of the main characters of the aventis of their childhood and adolescence Besides the interesting flashbacks a chronical of the Civil War in a typical Barcelona microcosm itself the discovery of this body belonging to someone long presumed dead leads to other surprises and unresolved doubts several decades later