Veinte años no es nada

In the late 70s, Spain went through difficult years of industrial, social and political reconversion. Workers were at last able to claim their rights and reforms In 1979, the employees of Numax, a company manufacturing electrical appliances, occupied and managed their factory. Joaquin Jordà filmed their experience (Numax presenta…) and told how they went 77 from euphoria to doubt. The film’s final scene shows a party and, twenty years later, provides the starting point for an enquiry into what has become of the Numax workers. One is now a taxi-driver, another is a cook and yet another has gone back to studying, whilst another has left town. This is the portrait of a generation and a social class that has lived through “industrial reconversion”… doubts, wanderings, happiness and misfortune give matter for thought. During the years following the Numax experience, Spain experienced violence, a failed military coup, the first leftwing government post Franco, terrorism… what commitments do those who lived through the “Transition” have today?