“Estranged from her family and her home country, she only returned to Spain as an adult, trained in medicine, after Stalin's death.”

“Between the ages of four and 24, she lived in various boarding schools, always in very closed circles with other Spanish children, also war refugees, with lessons in her mother tongue: only later did she learn Russian.”

“She lived in Kherson, in what is now Ukraine, in Kazakhstan, in a small village in Siberia and finally in Moscow, where she went to university.”

“Angelita didn't pass on this traumatic experience to her children, quite the opposite: 'My mum is a shy and introverted person. She speaks little about this period, but when she does, she has never, as far back as I can remember, given us the idea that this experience was a trauma. I've always felt that it was (for her) an adventure,' Ana Pérez-Quiroga told Euronews.”

“The passage of time, the relationship between mother and daughter and the feeling of belonging to the various places and cultures that Ana's mother experienced are themes that are always present in the film.”

“Angelita and her sister returned to Spain in the 1950s, more than 20 years after leaving the country. Their parents, republicans, were spared Franco's repression and the wave of shootings during the civil war, although their father spent some time in prison.”

“She then met her Portuguese husband and moved to the estate in the centre of Portugal where the family has a vineyard.”