On February 8, 1939, the village of Llers (Alt Empordà) disappeared from the map. The Republican army, with the war almost lost, detonated the powder magazine in the church, leaving only rubble. The neighbors had been warned, but they hadn't expected such destruction. When they returned, they no longer found their house, nor the sheets or the dishes they had hidden. "Nothing remained. The residents of Llers lost absolutely everything, not even their memories. They had lived through three years of war, and on the last day, their town blew up," he explains. Maria Escalas (Palma, 1969), which in the book Nothing was left (Ara Llibres) captures how that loss impacted its inhabitants.