In his memories of his childhood and youth, written in several accounts books, the painter Manolo Millares analyses his family, his friends and other people belonging to a very important period in Spanish history in the twentieth century (the Second Republic, the Civil War and the immediate post-war) all experienced from the Canary Islands.
Through reading these books, conversing with her father’s living brothers and with the participation of her mother Elvireta and other people referred to in the memories Eva, the painter’s daughter, tries to bring back the roots of the deep, dramatic, almost tragic feeling of Millares’ painting..