The feeling is bittersweet as the narrator, a former President of Israel, becomes, in essence, the first in his family to return to Spain in over five hundred years. The viewer learns a great deal about Spain, its people, Sephardic Jews, and a strong inter-connectedness among the Spanish Catholics, Spanish/Sephardic Jews, and so-called Marranos, and the whole exploration is delivered with a stirring mixture of nostalgia, love, wonder, and horror, amid the incomparable architecture and scenery of Spain and Portugal. It is imagined that this film would be of interest to persons of all religions and ethnicities, since the historical narrative of this film goes from a medieval Christian period, under the Visigoths, to the period of "Moorish" rule by Moslem cultures, in which Jewish scholars wrote their tomes in Arabic, to the famous period of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, the "Catholic Monarchs," and beyond, into the twentieth century.
