
In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's 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 nurse-nun (who grew up together, and now are co-workers 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

as Daniel Javaloyes 'Java'

as Menchu / Ramona / Aurora Nin

as Marcos

as Conrado-Señor Galán

as Palau

as Taylor

as Sendra

as Nadal

as Fusam

as Sarnita

as Fueguiña

as Ñito

as Señora Galán

as Dueña Continental

as Abuela Java

as Luis Lage

as Rubianca

as Ado

as Balbina

as Margarita

as Alberto

as Falangista

as Miliciano



as Luis

as Mingo

as Juanita

as Sor Paulina

as Justiniano