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1989: Berlin wall is down. communist dictators in the past. for all the people that lived this age a new freedom, but for those who were in the west, it's the falling of hope. unless everybody knew that real socialism was a bad solution, it represented the chance to create, or just imagine, something different from capitalism. now the wall is down, what does it mean to be left-wing? if you've been a communist all of your life, what's your new position in society. Moretti here represents perfectly this situation: Italian communist party, is almost lost, a great discussion inside: what are we doing, where do we come from, and (most important) where do we go now? are we different, are we the same of the rest? can we find back the will to fight?

this movie is a story of immigrants in Barcelona.it's filmed among the ghettos, in the old part of the city, based on real interviews, with real people coming from different places: east Europe, south America, Africa, or USA, looking for something, coming with hope. sometimes they are Lucky, sometimes they're not. Writter, and filmed by Ana Torres, an illegal immigrant from Argentina, Fast rhythm,a real look on life without permission (the title in English, would be "if they let us". you got to have a whole lot of sense of humor, to face that, but, surprise!, a lot of people has it. fear or expulsion, hunger, abuse, brotherhood, all is here. try to get it, it's worth it Roberto