El avaro Andrés Cabrera contrata al carnicero Pedro para reprimir a los inquilinos amotinados de una vecindad propiedad suya. El obediente Pedro descargará su enorme fuerza en los vecinos y su primitiva pasión en Paloma, la amante de don Andrés.

Buñuel is famous for the bookending sections of his career: his Surrealist experiments in the late ‘20s to early ’30s and his sublimely twisted art films of the ’60s-’70s. But between he found himself in Mexico making subtly wicked satires within the mainstream. A lesson in sublimated perversity!