 "Pan s Labyrinth" is the story of a young girl who travels with her pregnant mother to live with her mother s new husband in a rural area up North in Spain, 1944, after Franco s victory. The girl lives in an imaginary world of her own creation and faces the real world with much chagrin. Fascist repression during the first years of Franco s dictatorship is at its height in rural Spain and the girl must come to terms with that through a fable of her own.