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Using expert interviews and historical research, this documentary seeks to solve the mysterious assassination of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca.
Many immigrants, when they arrived in Spain, thought they had found paradise, soon thwarted all their dreams of prosperity. Many of them then decided to return to their land, but not so simple. In a pension match various immigrants end up discovering that deportation is the only way to return to his country.
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