In the hang over of the racist attacks against the migrant "jornaleros" in El Ejido, so much information, images and documentation was available in the media, both mainstream and alternative, that you would hardly think the people directly affected, the migrants having been attacked would still be missing some kind of media coverage.

It was not they missed that coverage but a deep deception could be easily sensed. Most of the migrants and most of the people involved locally in the solidarity movement were clear about the kind of engagement the media avalanche had been able to provide: none. For some weeks it was like the workers in El Ejido were some kind of actors, constantly performing their assigned characters... to be inmediately forgotten afterwards. It's part of the "medialogics": news come and go ... and disappear. And what happens when you are living in such terrible conditions as the workers in El Ejido are, and then media coverage is "burnt" and disappears: things just keep going the way the used to.

Helena Maleno comes from El Ejido and when the racist attacks happened she had been working for some years with groups of women, understanding herself as a part of the social group she was working in and with. She was one of the references for us all in the worst days of the attacks. Alex Muñoz is one of the photographers you can always trust to find in the "evictions" of neighbours and social centres. He's been engaged as a producer of images from the very incide of the proceses he is portraying.

When Alex and Helena met in El Ejido the basics were given to start an ambitious project able to collect oral testimonies, pictures, and basic video footage in a way that not just made as narrow as posible the distance between the represented and the representation but also in a way that allowed the images to come back as a sort of tool that actually changed the living conditions of the people who "starred" the pictures. Since Helena was living on the spot and Alex was there as often as his job would let him to, the documentary would not be an isolated fragment of reality but an ongoing process of debate and reflexion.