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Paula and Alvaro belong to opposite social and ideological classes. Turbulent times in their homeland have led to them being sent to the USSR, two of the 30,000 'war children' evacuated abroad in 1937-38 by the Spanish Republican government to spare them Franco's bombings during the Civil War. But when the Germans invade Russia in 1941, far tougher times lie ahead. ISPANSI follows the epic journey of a group of children and accompanying adults as they struggle for survival, fleeing north from Stalingrad to spend a harsh winter in a village of the Volga region, then being forced out by hunger to face the long walk to the Ural Mountains. Though both may be losers in the face of history and ideology, Alvaro and Paula grow closer during their terrible journey, finally developing a love freed from political hatred.

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