The young Cuban filmmaker and screenwriter Vanessa Batista decided to make an emotional documentary about some Catalans who emigrated to Cuba and never returned to their native land, but in the process she came upon some authentic film relics that changed everything.

The title and the documentary speak about the emigrants who weren't "Indianos." The difference between 'Indianos' and emigrants is that the former returned to Spain very rich, while the latter were trapped" overseas in the Americas and could never return.

From the start Batista sought to portray the emigrants' emotions, not the didactic or historical aspect of their story, though during the shoot in Cuba she had to revise the structure. The family of the Catalan Francisco Carulla, whom Batista met in Santiago de Cuba, gave an unexpected twist to the project when he gave Batista some unedited footage almost a century old that shows the Barcelona of 1926 and its surroundings.