One of the greatest cultural and social revolutions in 20th century Europe took place in a tiny village on the Spanish seaside. In the 50's, a batch of American Marines build a huge military base on farming land bringing dollars, Marlboros, Cadillacs, night clubs and rock n´roll music into post-civil war Spain, an impoverished country ruled by a fascist dictator. Welcome to Rota, "The South European Las Vegas."

Rota 'n Roll

“Paco Foto”, a photographer from the years of the “landismo”, and the Swedish women in bikinis and the television raffles for flats in Torremolinos, recalls his life in the times when Franco’s Ministry of Tourism forged the sangria-and-paella tourism in the recently invented Costa del Sol.