The Eyes of Lying Men

At the end of 1965, Ernest joins the old University of Barcelona full of uncertainties. He belongs to a bourgeois family, fearful and connivente with the Franco regime, but he moves indecisively in the labyrinths of secrecy that has just discovered. Disturbed by the intense incestuous attraction he feels for his mother and fascinated by a theater group that lives on the margins of legality, Ernest will accumulate cultural stimuli of all kinds. The legendary May of 68 is also a powerful magnet and, suddenly, in 1969, flees Barcelona. In Paris he meets Dorothy, explores the ways of freedom, becomes aware of the disorders he has experienced, and leaves us testimony of everything.

The murderous Francoist repression, the first attacks of ETA, the Caputxinada, the wonderful theatrical adventure of La Pipironda, the intellectuals who wrote the Espasa encyclopedia... The eyes of lying men observe the city.

«It was not a matter of ideology, it was worse, it was deeper, it was essential, it was a comfortable, safe cowardice, indifferent to the consequences it had, a cowardice made in good manners, educated and European, resistant to emphatic rhetoric, outdated, ecclesiastical and military of Spain, but at the same time accomplice of all this.»