Mosaïk, télévision sans frontière

In the early 1960s, during the height of Franco's regime, hundreds of thousands of Spaniards emigrated to other European countries, mainly France, Germany, and Switzerland. Among them were many young women who left their villages for the first time, traveling alone to Paris to become “maids of all work.” Si tu vas à Paris tells the story of seven women from the same village in Valencia who, at the age of 18 or 20, decided to take control of their future.

What did we, the children born in France in the 1960s, understand about the history of our Spanish parents, scarred by three years of fratricidal war, herded into camps during the early years of their exile in France, long prevented from returning to their country ? What could we hear from their whispers ? What stories did we tell ourselves to reassure them that we would never have to bear their suffering or humiliation? How did we understand their country of origin ? Today, I am revisiting this family history.