Els morts riallers

In 1977, Sebastià Rovira saved his publishing house from ruin by exploiting the vein of biographies to order. In the midst of regime change, the past can become very uncomfortable, and politicians and businessmen lined up to rewrite their history and make it fit for the new times. Now, many years later, the editor revisits the exemplary biographies he published on Placid Escolà and Ernest Obach, honorable leading men of the Transition. Under the layer of makeup he invented for them, Rovira reveals the true predatory nature of post-war victors. Ruthless with the weak, servile with the strong and skillful manipulators of the threads of power. This is the story of the born strategists who changed everything so that nothing would change. With a quixotic mix of reality and fiction, tragedy and comedy, The Laughing Dead launches a torpedo at the regime of 1978 and its beneficiaries, and exposes bluntly aspects that still occupy the center of the country's political debate.