In 1936, a military coup against Spain's Republican government touched off a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands and opened the door to General Francisco Franco's 36-year dictatorship. This film combines aerial footage and on-the-ground visits to trace that legacy across the Spanish landscape, from the ruins of Belchite, left pulverized and never rebuilt as a wartime memorial, to Guernica, destroyed by Nazi and Italian bombers backing Franco's Nationalists. It climbs into secret bunkers built into the Pyrenees and walks through sites holding thousands of unmarked mass graves, part of a reckoning with victims Spain is still working to identify and name decades later. The narration connects Hitler and Mussolini's material support for Franco to the regime's long authoritarian rule after the war ended in 1939, and considers how the dictatorship's scars, physical and political, remain visible in Spain today. The film treats the war less as a closed historical chapter than as an unfinished one.