In 1940, Franco's repression was more bloody and brutal than ever, but in an apartment in Barceloneta, at number 37 Grau i Torres Street, Soledad Real, Isabel Imbert, and Clara Pueyo resisted. Maria Salvo didn't live in the apartment, but she had a close relationship with the other three women. They produced propaganda material, and the building was known as... oasisBecause it was in the middle of the desert of the dictatorship. That building no longer exists, because it was demolished. However, it is possible to enter the clandestine apartment, hear the voices of those brave women, and perceive what they must have heard while writing or hiding people. You only have to go up in an elevator, where everything is as it was in the 1940s and where a gramophone plays Francoist propaganda, and enter the installation created by La Inefable and curated by historians Fernando Hernández Holgado, Oriol López Badell, and Toni Vidal Arnan, in Casa de la Barceloneta 17. The visitor's mailbox is a small one. If you pick up the phone, you feel how a modest, shared apartment became a center of clandestine anti-Francoist activity. Bulletins were written, propaganda was distributed, and people in need were given shelter. The voice invites you to open a door to discover one of the "most powerful examples of female resistance during the immediate post-war period." In the first room, where everything is very dark, there's a sewing machine, because this space of resistance had the appearance of a sewing workshop. On the table are old photo albums of the three young militants from the Unified Socialist Youth of Catalonia. You can hear the sound of a typewriter hidden behind a door that looks like a wardrobe. On the other side is the table where the women wrote pamphlets and bulletins, a bed covered in letters they wrote, and three old telephones. If you pick them up, you can feel the struggles inside and outside the party and the story of what happened on August 22, 1941, when the police officers stormed the apartment and ransacked it. On the telephone on the bedside table, the story being told is that of Soledad Real. She was suffering because of a letter and asked the officers if she could take some cloths from there because she was menstruating. An officer made her undress in front of him until she was left in her bra and panties, then turned away. Real took advantage of that moment to put the letter in her panties and tore it to pieces in the bathroom.

There have been many silences in Spain's recent history. The journalist Roger Mateos (Barcelona, ​​​​1977), who has dedicated many years to investigate and explore the greyest and darkest areas of Franco's regime, decided to uncover new secrets after learning of a conversation. Xosé Humberto Baena, a member of the Revolutionary Anti-Fascist and Patriotic Front (FRAP), had it with his father shortly before he was shot on September 27, 1975, fifty years ago. The father needed the truth, and asked his son to tell him, although if he told him they had shot an innocent man, it would be more painful. "I'm sorry, Father, but I can't give you that consolation. It wasn't me who killed him," was the response of the young Galician anti-Francoist who was about to turn 25. Mateos believes in Baena's innocence; he has the information to prove it. The Summer of the Innocents: The Secret of the Last Man Executed During the Franco Regime (Anagrama) is a years-long investigation into what happened on the day of the murder of police officer Lucio Rodríguez, for which Baena was convicted and killed.