In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and throughout the early years of Franco’s dictatorship, dozens of concentration camps became instruments for the repression and liquidation of Republican forces. In the name of family peace and national reconciliation, the reality of the Francoist camps has remained erased from public consciousness, ignored even by Spanish cinema. Eloy Enciso confronts this collective amnesia, not by adopting the familiar forms of historical investigation or documentary memorialisation, but by mobilising the powers of fiction to rethink cinema’s encounter with history, memory and oblivion.