“There are two ways to return to the point you have just left behind. One is to turn around. The other is to go around the world.” Guillermo Zúñiga. An Unrenounceable Vocation is the story of a man who, halfway through his life, had lost everything and who had to travel around the world to return to the place where he found himself forty years earlier. In 1939, Guillermo Zúñiga crossed the border into France, leaving behind his professional life, his academic life, his wife and his newborn daughter whom he had not yet been able to meet. Turning around was never an option. Nearly half a million Spaniards left their homeland at the end of the Civil War. Many returned, many suffered persecution and ostracism, others, like Guillermo Zúñiga, found that behind the sands of the beaches of Argelès a second war was breaking out. The fight against the fascist hordes continued on French soil. Those Spaniards who defended freedom within the Resistance found themselves abandoned by the French government and the international community as soon as the war ended in Europe. So Zúñiga had to travel around the world. When, after his Argentine journey, Guillermo Zúñiga returned to Spain to work as a producer at UNINCI, he did not do so to resume the political battle that had expelled him, but to continue with the work and vocation that had guided his existence until the coup d'état of 1936. Zúñiga always carried out honest work in the field of dissemination and commercial, although there was one thing he did not do: he did not talk about his experiences in the war or in exile. According to his friends and family, Zúñiga did not tell “battle stories.” However, the 70 mm can containing thousands of negatives of his experiences at the front and in refugee camps accompanied him throughout his life. He carried it with him, guarded it, and never showed his entire archive to anyone. It was discovered, almost miraculously, after Zúñiga had died. Why did he carry this material with him throughout his tribulations across the world? Why did he bring it back to Spain and why did he not show it once Spain entered its current democratic stage? These questions are difficult to answer, but their approach reveals a lot about the history of our country. About the feelings of exiles and those who returned to a country that was always theirs but no longer belonged to them. Exile and the figure of the exile (both those who returned and those who did not) are largely forgotten in Spain. They were not given justice and, at one point, they were asked to be prudent, encouraging them to remain silent “so as not to reopen wounds.” Why is someone like Guillermo Zúñiga, cinematographic pioneer, adventurous disseminator, hero of the Resistance, not celebrated in his own land? In a Europe that is once again experiencing fear of the advance of fascism and intolerance, it is pertinent to vindicate those people who, with their career, represented the values of the Enlightenment and humanism. Zúñiga's negatives were kept in the darkness of a box for 70 years. In order to be able to see these images, a careful restoration process and the light of a projector are necessary. The light that our past, our history and our present need.