 In the political arena, the Law of Historical Memory of 2007 attempted to move on from the pact of forgetting adopted by the Spanish at the time of the transition to democracy.Cercas thinks many Spanish people of his generation have been reluctant to write about the Civil War (which was experienced directly by their grandparents' generation).However, he views the pact of forgetting as a mainly political construct, given the fact that some books and films about the Civil War were produced despite the influence of the pact.