“Memorias de ultramar” (“Overseas”) is a documentary made with pictures taken by families who lived in the colonies, provinces and territories with a Spanish presence in the twentieth century. More specifically, the images that make up the film were shot in Spanish Guinea, the Spanish Sahara, the Moroccan Protectorate and Tangiers from the 1940s to the 1970s. A series of snapshots taken by those who were moved to another country and had to build a home there, the film is like an album whose pages are turned but then stop at certain moments. The editor then rewinds, zooms in, analyzes and searches for echoes within the familiar material. Which topics are repeated? How do these people film nature, work, women and raw materials? What position is given to otherness in the framing of the images? Are there any signs of colonialism to be found in these household pictures? In short, the film is designed as an essay arising from a thorough analysis of private collections. It is impossible to take on a somewhat critical viewpoint of colonial history, but we should not judge people or materials from the perspective of the present.