For twenty years, Pablo Morales, a merry taxidermist, has been psychologically tortured by his nasty and puritanical wife, Gloria. One day, Pablo tells his friends that Gloria is visiting an aunt in Guadalajara. But in his laboratory, Pablo keeps a skeleton that he treats as if it were his wife…

Satirizing the paradoxes that exist in Mexican society, Rogelio A. González’s macabre cult classic twists the knife into the hypocrisies of middle-class respectability with outrageous glee. Unafraid to be uproariously villainous, Arturo de Córdova turns taxidermy—and murder—into a carnivalesque act.