Carmela (courageous and spontaneous), Paulino (pragmatic and cowardly) and Gustavete (mute) are minstrels who perform for the leisure of the republican side during the Spanish Civil War. They are a group of comedians who do their best to amuse the republican soldiers but they're growing tired of  having to endure so much hardship at the front. Carmela, Paulino and Gustavete head off for Valencia but mistakenly end up in a region under the control of the nationalist side. There, they are taken prisoner and the only way they can save their lives is by giving a performance to a group of nationalist army officers, which goes against the grain of their own ideology.

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