This film is crafted from extremely sensitive material, perhaps the most painful kind imaginable. Letters Civil War prisoners wrote just hours before they died and that now, nine decades later, are read out by their relatives. Although these words of farewell show barbarism and injustice, more than anything they convey their gratitude to loved ones. Fernando Vílchez Rodríguez puts together a solid and particularly rigorous piece by interspersing the readings with observations of the Riojan landscape, often at magical hours. Shot entirely on Super-8, this work is a fundamental part of the Spanish filmography dealing with the issue of historical memory.