It is not surprising to find that Zona Franca, the former commercial area of traditional industry, and 22@, the area recently zoned for logistic and technological capitalism, are part of a huge real estate operation publicised under the umbrella of Barcelona's post-industrial urban renewal. So, what economic and symbolic benefits do they generate, and for whom? What advantages do companies and institutions gain from this symbiosis? And what about the workers?

Safaris in the gaps of the empire of property speculation. Psycho-geographic wanderings.Huge urban extension of desolated and confused territories between deconstruction and construction submerged to the rhythm of daily transformations... While the constructors look ahead in the future and neighbors reclaim the past of the workers district, here we are now, in a changeable and dynamic surroundings, without known marks and orientational signs. Municipal maps are not valid here any more.Flow of human circulations are generating and modifying according to measure that urban volumes are transforming. Every movement happens to be an adventure because it won't be possible to see and experience it never again.

The upgrading of the final stretch of Diagonal avenue in Barcelona's Poble Nou area, for the launch of the "Forum" zone, will lead to the physical disappearance of entire blocks of housing and a way of life. An interview with a group of residents affected by a PERI (special renovation plan) that affects a block of ground floor houses in Poble Nou. They talk about the real estate agency's bad management and the lack of interest shown by the City Council in their excitement over the opening of the Universal Forum of Cultures.

“Located in the historic city center, the once old former Barrio Chino had become a succulent real estate treat waiting to be carved up. To the North, a legion of civilians holed up in museums, universities and centers of contemporary culture waiting until the police finished clearing the streets of the destitute. To the South, the deputies of the tourism industry unloaded the hordes of the idle from the modern cruise ships anchored in the port. It was the start of an all-out siege, a war that fed on the city's streetwalkers. The battle was waged one house at a time...”

A documentary that criticizes Barcelona's mammoth urban restructuring process, which is carried out without the participation of the people who live in and use the city according to a model that chooses to ignore social memory, especially when it comes to the working class. Through the voices of some of the people behind this process, the documentary shows a side to this chapter of the city's history that is usually not presented by the media.

La Makabra is a squatted factory, usually occupied by around fifty people. It is open to the public, and it works as a self-managed cultural centre in Barcelona's Poble Nou district. This is one of the social and artistic collectives affected by 22@, the urban design plan responsible for restructuring the district, which plans to evacuate the building. In spite of this situation the squatters continue performing shows and cabarets, because that is how they use this space, placing creativity up against consumption.

This video was edited as a result of the Captura Raval Workshop (OVNI - TEB -  CCCB) "I don't think politicians have read any history at all, modern or ancient. Situations repeat themselves, and no matter how many guns they have, it will all be repeated again, because it will be necessasry. Watch out world leaders, murderers like Mr Bush...this is a Barcelona you can?t see one that hides?".

I don't think politicians have read any history at all, modern or ancient. Situations repeat themselves, and no matter how many guns they have, it will all be repeated again, because it will be necessary. Watch out world leaders, murderers like Mr Bush...this is a Barcelona you can't see; one that hides.