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In the centre of the bilingual city of Biel, 5082 m² of asphalt are spread out. The rectangular, light grey surface is called Place de l'Esplanade. Between the Palais des Congrès, a representative modernist building, and the Coupole, the Autonomous Youth Centre founded in 1968, the square tells the story of a city between upheaval and recession and is still subject of constant change and controversial urban planning.

The Spanish friends of filmmaker Adrien Bordone were born in Switzerland and were forced by their parents to ‘return’ to Galicia after finishing school. Twenty years later, the filmmaker and his friends explore the reasons for this remigration.