Paco Roca’s homage to his mother and a portrait of post-war Spain

Based on a family photo from 1947 taken on the Nazaret beach in
Valencia, Paco Roca paints a portrait of post-war Spain featuring one
of its many humble families—a reflection of the vast majority of society that survived under Franco’s dictatorship—who faced serious problems in maintaining a livelihood, forced to turn to the black market in order to obtain basic daily provisions. A vigorous and delicate portrait in four colors of a Spain of grey tones and restricted liberties, under a political regime that was a breeding ground for the spread of moral misery.