Spanish-Moroccan letters of forbidden love that were never received

Confiscated letters written to Moroccan men from Spanish women decades ago reveal a history of taboo affairs during the colonial era.

"When will you come back to Spain?" The desperate-sounding plea had been carefully written out on the page, a sign of how important it was for Carmela.

"Tell me that you are not looking at any other women," she wrote from Granada in 1944.

But the man these words were intended for never got to read them. Carmela's international love letter did not make it to its destination in Morocco.

Instead, it ended up hidden deep in the Spanish archives, in an unexpected stash of hundreds of amorous messages between Spanish women and Moroccan men.