On her WhatsApp profile, she has a photo of the Flamisell River, in Pallars Jussà, and in the status text, it reads "Against the current". Cristina Farré has lived her whole life against the current. And what a life! A former militant of the Communist Party of Spain (international), the political struggle led her into clandestinity, to suffer torture, to prison, and to exile; a story that she has collected in the memoir book We gave it all.