With the military uprising of July 1936, teachers in Mallorca were also repressed, such as Antoni Benaiges, 33, from Tarragona, the protagonist of the successful film The teacher who promised the sea (2023). Benaiges, who would pioneer an innovative methodology at the time, was shot in a small town in Burgos, where he had been stationed since 1934. His students were left without the promise he had made them: to take them to see the sea.