El abismo del olvido

On September 14, 1940, 532 days after the end of the Spanish Civil War, José Celda was shot by the Franco regime along with 11 other men on the back wall of the Paterna cemetery, in Valencia, and buried with them in a grave. common. More than seven decades later, and after a long journey through the dark side of a country self-conscious about its past, Pepica, José's daughter, an elderly woman in her eighties who was 8 years old when her father was killed, finally managed to locate and recover his remains to restore his dignity. In Pepica Celda's personal battle against oblivion, the role of Leoncio Badía, a young republican who had been sentenced some time ago to work as a gravedigger in the cemetery of his town, was decisive. Risking his neck, Leoncio, a man obsessed with the meaning of life and the order of the universe, had secretly collaborated for years with the widows of those retaliated by in the war to identify their bodies and bury them in the most dignified way possible. , locate their graves and hide messages among their remains, convinced that one day someone could get them out of there.