A woman is nearly assaulted by the nephew of the local nobleman, but is rescued by the man’s son, an artist whose works are too modern, even blasphemous, for his conservative countrymen. After fighting with the Republican cause in the Spanish civil war, they are both arrested by the Franco faction.

One could wonder if the Spanish Civil War has ever been depicted with such virulent provocation and insurrectionist verve! Fernando Arrabal, in exile in France, filmed a love story amidst the chaos of war with baroque and surrealist flourishes, and with it condemned the cruel horrors of Franquism.