The gaze traces the details of a photograph, taken in 1937 in Zapal de Barbate (Cádiz), which shows six women, four boys and three girls. One of the women, María ‘La ratona’, describes life in the shantytown of a fishing village that was a destination for migrants, in the context of the Civil War, repression and the enrichment of the local oligarchy with the rise of purse seine fishing and tuna from the almadrabas (tuna traps). Zapal proposes a reflection on the underworlds of the peripheries of the cities and the forced displacements caused by precariousness and wars.
