Román Gubern was born in 1934 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He is a writer and actor, known for Espérame en el cielo (1988), Brillante porvenir (1965) and Ensalada Baudelaire (1978).
A Nobel prize winner returns to his natal city looking for his home.
Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become the dictator's double for many official ceremonies. Due to his long and unexplained absence, Pepe's wife believes her husband has been abducted and killed, so she tries to reach her husband through spiritualism. After Pepe surprises her with a nocturnal visit, he tells her he will touch his ear to signal it is he and not Franco in public appearances.
The two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London.