On that cold morning at the end of (the year) 1973 at the airport of Santiago de Chile, Luis never could imagine that it would take him 35 years to reconstitute the 20 sheets on which he had written down, page after page, all what happened at the Argentinian Embassy, 20 sheets that the military grasped and just threw away.

Those sheets of memory were recollected during the years to generate the archives of his mind, his memoirs.

It’s his memory that gives the consistence to the story of the intense actuel experience in an embassy that became smaller and smaller, with the daily arrival of refugees, who risked their live, leaping over the walls, jumping from the neighbouring houses, threw themselves in dangerous situations to try to enter the only door, a door surrounded by military and guns.

Finally there were 750 refugees, and twenty different nationalities. (...)

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