A definitive example of Mexican cinema which is characterised by blood, tears and madness. In front of ail the towns-people a young woman is slowly levered from the well into which she suicided. Determined to have his daughter's honour restored posthumously, Rudecindo obsessively pursues a course of maudlin action that implicates all mourners, even the local priest. A more melodramatic and macabre version of Romeo and Juliet would be difficult to find.