It is a story about people who were forcibly dispossessed and evicted by the government to make way for a dam. They are victims of a failed large-scale project, because the dam was never built. Now, with great effort, they are reclaiming their homes.

There are many abandoned villages in Spain. One of the most beautiful is Jánovas in the Aragonese Pyrenees. It is embedded in breathtaking nature. But now new life is stirring there. "Re:" accompanies the children and grandchildren of the expropriated families as they rebuild their homes. The reportage follows their emotional struggle for their homeland.

The inhabitants of Jánovas were expropriated from the 1960s onwards. Their village was to make way for a dam. The struggle was fierce, and some families resisted for many years. Some houses were blown up or destroyed. It was an intergenerational struggle against state madness. By the end of the 1980s, the struggle was lost and all the inhabitants were displaced. But the dam was never built. Two years ago, the reconquest of the homeland began: the expropriations were partially reversed.

"Re" shows how important home is and how great the wounds of uprooting can be. Especially for the protagonist Jesus, who is now bringing his parents' bitter struggle to a close with belated success. They are driven by their love for their village. The honour of her relatives and the memories are at stake. Jánovas is a clear example of what large-scale state projects mean concretely for the people affected. But the case also shows how such projects fail and that it is always worth fighting on.