Javier Cercas

A novelist who has abandoned her writing career tracks down the details of a true story from the last days of the Spanish Civil War. The writer and Falangist Rafael S. Mazas faced a firing squad along with other prisoners, but managed to escape into the woods. A Republican soldier found him but allowed him to escape. The novelist pieces together the fragments of the story and comes to realise that her search for the truth is a personal quest of self-discovery.

A man obsessed with the idea of writing "high literature" starts to cause conflicts around him to write about it.

Introverted Girona student Nacho meets two delinquents from the city's Chinatown and gets caught up in a summer onslaught of burglaries and hold ups that will change his life. (imdb)