Intuitive and with a half hidden camera, Joan Colom, captured the everyday witness of a picturesque neighborhood. Images that view today give us an objective view of the cultural transformation that has lived the Raval. Although Chinatown was, during the gold rush of the Great War, a bohemian neighborhood of artists and cabarets, Colom shows us Chinatown after the war and the Franco regime, which evokes popular life, poverty, prostitution.