This story begins in 1961, when a young Italian named Francesco Palmeri, just 8 years old, boarded a train alone heading to the Gennetines festival in France. Delighted by the success of having made it onto the Milan-Lyon train, he fell asleep for several weeks and woke up at Atocha station in Madrid. There, frightened to find himself in a country under military dictatorship, he hid in the botanical garden of the station, where he lived for decades. During that time, he would sneak into the lost and found section at night, where he discovered his first guitar — which he still owns — along with several musical instruments he played in secret during the station’s lonely nights. From there, several Plan B compositions were born, but he was missing someone to play them with: he needed to find a singer who played diatonic accordion, but also kalimba, synthesizers and drum machine, and who was possibly a Portuguese speaker.

That strange story intrigued a young videomaker, Natercia Lameiro, who approached the lost traveller with the idea of filming a documentary for her production company. In reality, the documentary was just an excuse to create content on her own terms, as she had never given up on her dream of becoming an influencer for animals — and the enormous audience of turtles in the station pond represented a perfect target for her ambitions.

After talking for a while, they discovered that both had a backpack of hidden music with nowhere to go. From that, Plan B was born: nobody’s dream, but the perfect match of two musical souls with a surprising affinity.