Azucena de la Fuente

A Séville, Maria Delgado, inspecteur de police fraîchement promue, prend ses fonctions dans un milieu peu enclin à accueillir une femme, si jolie soit-elle. C'est la Semaine Sainte et elle se retrouve confrontée à d'étranges meurtres. Des crimes marqués au sang d'un pénitent, un homme cagoulé arborant le rouge de l'ordre religieux de la Fraternité du Christ. Epaulée par Torillo et Quemada, un jeune flic borné et quelque peu misogyne, Maria est chargée de l'enquête.Cependant, les recherches piétinent et le tueur sévit selon un même rituel qui rappelle celui de la tauromachie. Au sein de l'équipe, des liens se tissent. Entre Maria et Quemada, peu à peu, les barrières tombent. Mais le tueur prend bientôt la belle pour cible.

Lazarus is a Cuban appeal that makes a living in Madrid. When his girlfriend Dolores travels from Cuba to Spain to live with him, he is in prison for kidnapping and attempted rape. Dolores tries to survive with a broken heart, but his sympathy and sensuality will make adjusting to life in Madrid and try to exceed the Lazarus drug addiction.

In the empty house of his family, Ramon, a poet, remembers the last day of the life of his master: the last time he went out with his friend don Latino de Hispalis, his talk with a minister and his dinner with Ruben Dario.

In a western and Mediterranean country, very fond of bullfighting and soccer, legislative elections are held, that is, "El Gran Mogollón" is elected from the bosses. Each leader feels that his position is secure, and some are preparing to take the presidency of "El Gran Mogollón", when the surprise arises: the P.E.R. has won by a wide margin.

En 1936, le déclenchement de la guerre civile espagnole oblige Maria, une bonne soeur, à quitter son couvent. Elle trouve refuge dans un bordel, où elle fait connaissance avec un groupe de femmes anarchistes qui luttent contre le régime franquiste, mais aussi, plus généralement contre l'ordre établi.

A man and a woman meet at a gallery. Who knows where the conversation can lead?

This literary film is imbued with the disenchantment of Spanish exiles who left their homes to protest Franco's fascist regime and then returned after its demise to find that democracy had not instilled either ethics or deep motivation in government leaders. Director Basilio Martin Patino presents his story, and a large part of the film is based on his own life, through the experiences of an exiled heroine played by Charo Lopez. She has returned to Spain to look for meaning in her life, something that she never found living in Germany, not even after having a child. She is also in the process of translating the German lyric poet Friederich Holderlin (see the 1985 Halfte Des Lebens) into Spanish, focusing on his epic Hyperion. Excerpts from the translation are voiced over throughout the film. As she looks up old friends from many, many years ago, even those who have achieved worldly success are suffering from the same ennui that propelled her back home.

A woman's day dream gives an ironic view of one of the most dramatic situations suffered by women at home, achieved by swapping the roles of men and women.