Elisabet Assens

Ousman Umar is a young Ghanaian man who leaves his village, drawn by the idea of ​​the "land of the white people"—a distant place that fuels his curiosity. After a journey fraught with obstacles, he arrives in Barcelona and discovers that life there is not as he had imagined, until he meets Montse, who welcomes him into her family and offers him—along with love and support—the possibility of a future.

1943. Franco has blocked the path of the Jews fleeing Nazi oppression over the Pyrenees mountains. At the border crossing in a small village, Manel Grau, a civil servant with a Republican past, decides to go against the orders of his superiors and aid the refugees across the border, with the help of Juliana, a fellow inhabitant of the village, and Jérome a French smuggler. Between them, they will start a crusade to help as many Jews as they possibly can. It is then that Manel will find himself embroiled in a dangerous odyssey. One that will awaken in him and his wife, Mercè, old ghosts of the still-recent Spanish Civil War