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Mientras duermen los murciélagos
Some retired artistes cross Europe in a bus, fleeing from the Nazi police. Berlin, 1945. An Allied bombing raid destroys the Artists House where great figures of the world of performance live in retirement. Juan Carlos Barrachina, considered to be the best trapeze artist in the world, is the only young man there when the catastrophe occurs and he takes the decision to flee to Spain with the seventeen survivors. This is the start of an unsettling bus journey through Nazi Germany, occupied France and post-war Spain. In addition, the Gestapo are after them for the disappearance of a mysterious envelope belonging to the Führer himself. Tender, exciting, witty and funny, Mientras duermen los muciélagos is a moving argument for dreams, with the world of the circus as its backdrop.