An exciting story about lies and life, fiction and truth from one of Spain's most significant writers. The Catalan Enric Marco dramatically posed as a survivor of the German concentration camp Flossenbürg for 30 years, publicly recounting his suffering and serving as president of the association of former Spanish concentration camp inmates. However, in 2005, a scandal erupted when a historian revealed that his story was a lie. Just days before, Marco had delivered a moving speech in the Spanish Parliament for the upcoming 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen camp. In reality, he had voluntarily gone to Germany in 1941 as part of an agreement between Spain and Nazi Germany to work at a shipyard in Kiel, thereby avoiding Spanish military service. He had never been in a concentration camp. What drove Marco to tell this lie?.