1 00:00:00,554 --> 00:00:02,914 For Juanba Berasategi (1951-2017) 2 00:00:02,939 --> 00:00:05,556 Pioneer in Basque animation, teacher and friend. 3 00:00:12,031 --> 00:00:15,548 THE DITCH 4 00:00:28,851 --> 00:00:37,647 She's 80 years old and her face is lined with wrinkles. 5 00:00:38,375 --> 00:00:46,625 Euxebi has not had an easy life. 6 00:00:47,583 --> 00:00:55,458 For cruel paradox of life... 7 00:00:56,041 --> 00:01:04,333 just as she embraced life, her father met his death. 8 00:01:13,166 --> 00:01:21,666 Even at five or six, she seemed a bright little girl. 9 00:01:22,333 --> 00:01:26,458 She often used to ask her mother: 10 00:01:27,958 --> 00:01:30,125 Mother, where is Father? 11 00:01:30,458 --> 00:01:33,000 All the others have a father, but I don't. 12 00:01:33,875 --> 00:01:37,047 All that I have is a photograph. 13 00:01:55,916 --> 00:02:03,916 She cried so hard at school! 14 00:02:04,466 --> 00:02:12,539 Her old schoolteacher was so mean. 15 00:02:12,590 --> 00:02:15,516 From today on, you will wear the ring of punishment. 16 00:02:15,751 --> 00:02:19,113 The viper stays close to its own kind. 17 00:02:26,918 --> 00:02:34,876 The little girl turned into a woman, and although she often asked 18 00:02:35,541 --> 00:02:43,748 the reply was always silent tears. 19 00:02:44,374 --> 00:02:52,041 She heard talk about dates, places, names... 20 00:02:52,541 --> 00:03:00,958 with which the ghosts of her childhood took shape. 21 00:03:03,458 --> 00:03:05,875 "The day Franco's soldiers entered... 22 00:03:06,750 --> 00:03:09,916 in the ditch on the way out of town... 23 00:03:11,208 --> 00:03:14,875 at daybreak, when there were no witnesses..." 24 00:03:15,625 --> 00:03:24,041 They were painful splinters that dug into her brain. 25 00:03:30,458 --> 00:03:38,333 It was hard to know where her father lay. 26 00:03:38,750 --> 00:03:46,041 What could Euxebi do but to go out and look for him? 27 00:03:46,583 --> 00:03:53,750 If the wind began to gently blow 28 00:03:54,166 --> 00:04:02,583 the poplar leaves shook violently. 29 00:04:08,083 --> 00:04:15,416 Just searching helped to relieve her curiosity. 30 00:04:15,934 --> 00:04:23,471 A tree stirred up something deep inside her. 31 00:04:24,125 --> 00:04:31,502 When she was in that place, her heart beat fast 32 00:04:31,833 --> 00:04:40,176 in a way that she only felt there. 33 00:04:44,041 --> 00:04:51,250 A pile of bones as witness in a history full of lies, 34 00:04:51,708 --> 00:04:59,291 oblivion was finally coming to an end. 35 00:05:00,041 --> 00:05:07,750 Euxebi thought this resting place would do 36 00:05:08,125 --> 00:05:16,796 and she left a photograph at her father's grave. 37 00:05:20,833 --> 00:05:28,126 Buried with a shovel, unearthed with a brush... 38 00:05:28,625 --> 00:05:36,541 bones are not merely bones 39 00:05:37,291 --> 00:05:44,625 they reflect the ideas of those murdered 40 00:05:45,075 --> 00:05:53,700 and the feelings of those who mourn them. 41 00:06:00,382 --> 00:06:04,802 Eighty years after the war, with more than 114,000 missing people, 42 00:06:04,827 --> 00:06:08,370 Spain continues to be one of the countries 43 00:06:08,395 --> 00:06:12,683 with the largest number of victims of enforced disappearances 44 00:06:12,708 --> 00:06:16,708 whose remains have not been recovered or identified. 45 00:06:17,810 --> 00:06:24,224 Traces of Franco are still deep, also in the Basque Country.