On 18 July 1936, the small city of Guía in Gran Canaria awoke to the news of a military rebellion. In Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, General Luis Orgaz, whom Franco has left at the head of the military, led the rebellion with the intention of subduing the island quickly and overwhelmingly. Unexpectedly, the rebel militias meet the resistance of the mayor of Guía who debates between his Republican loyalty and opposition to arming the population of their city to avoid a civil confrontation. But the hours pass, the resistance becomes organised and the military persist in taking the city as soon as possible.

‘Más alto que el cielo nosotros’ rescues from oblivion some facts and some characters whose memory failed to make history. This is a choral work that brings together action and emotion, memories & inquiry, and above all, fear, love, illusion and hope, those feelings that make us especially human.

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