A musician is injured and threatened for defending a girl and decides to go to the capital, where fame and success achieved. She is glad to know that he has succeeded, however, has become a street prostitute prone to paralysis. Finally one day he takes courage and decides to look for, since it has become invalid again ...
Acting
Agustín Lara playing himself — raw, unvarnished, devastating.
Score
His own songs become the film's weeping heartbeat.
Cinematography
Mexico City nights that swallow hope whole.
Director
Tito Davison
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Agustín Lara was Mexico's most famous songwriter; this is his only film role, essentially playing his own melancholic myth.
The 'prostitute with a heart of gold' archetype here influenced decades of Mexican cinema's 'cabaretera' genre.
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