After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Carmela joins one of the militias heading for the front, along with thousands of other women. Her struggle was twofold: to fight fascism and to prevent the disappearance of the freedoms and rights that women had won during the Second Spanish Republic. In the middle of the battle, a grenade amputated Carmela’s hand, the same hand she had used a few months earlier to vote… for the first time.
With the end of the war and the victory of the fascists, they will try to erase Carmela and thousands of other women fighters from history.