TV Movie about Concepción Arenal in his role as visiting women's prisons. His struggle to change the conception that was on criminals and they had to be modern prisons.

"A Species Odyssey" portrays the origins of Mankind from the moment the first primate stood up on their hind legs and set off to conquer the African Savanna, to modern Man, setting off to conquer space. 7 million years of triumph fraught with difficulties and extraordinary events that make Man what he is today.

1937年，马德里，西班牙内战如火如荼，年富力强的男人不是战死前线，就是深陷牢笼，流亡异国反而成了最好的归宿。胡斯托(Juan Diego Botto)原本是律师行里一颗冉冉升起的新星，和年轻的妻子曼纽艾拉(María Valverde)生活美满。战争摧毁了他们的幸福，胡斯托弃法从戎，加入了共和军，一面抵抗佛朗哥的武装叛乱，一面利用反法西斯电台“解放之声”宣传革命。妻子则带着年幼的女儿帕洛玛和儿子拉斐尔四处躲藏，逃避敌人的恐吓，可拉斐尔还是不幸夭折了。二战的烽火跟着内战席卷而来，西班牙的苦难在继续。胡斯托被驱逐出国，他的家在轰炸中化为灰烬，当女儿帕洛玛(Ivana Baquero)都已从顽童长成亭亭少女，他仍然下落不明。曼纽艾拉怀着丈夫一定活在人间的信念，带着女儿在战火硝烟里流浪，直至和平来临。直到60年代的某一天，曼纽艾拉在杂志上看到一帧集中营囚犯的合影，胡斯托身在其中。多年的等待有了结果，团聚也许就近在咫尺。。。