A wealthy couple is hampered by having no children. The sister-in-law feels attracted to the husband and marries his brother. Tension raises between them when the wife feels ill.
Acting
Dolores del Río's silent suffering speaks volumes.
Cinematography
Bracho's shadows trap everyone in their own desires.
Director
Julio Bracho
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Del Río returned to Mexican cinema after Hollywood exile, making this part of her Mexican Golden Age reinvention.
Bracho adapts Galician writer Emilia Pardo Bazán, relocating her feminist critique of bourgeois marriage to 1950s Mexico.
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