Married carnival performers are subjected to the abuses of their employer in this silent film gem that has not received as much attention as it deserves. When the boss' unwanted advances on the wife are refused， he taunts a lion until it nearly kills her. But the other performers assist in a unique plot for revenge. Jaque Catelain directs and stars in this film made for influential French director Marcel L'Herbier's production company. Some sources also list L'Herbier as co-director， as he is credited here. The film boasts some rapid-fire editing techniques that were decades ahead of its time我所认为最深沉的爱，就是我把自己活成了你的样子。

　　A great spanish cult movie!坦率地说，亲爱的，我根本不在乎。（Frankly， my dear， I don’t give a damn.）
　　This is one of the most astonishing films ever made. It has some scenes that it should be in the history of cinema. Like the filming by Fernando Fernan Gomez of the militias using a big roll of paper to win a positions. Or the begging of the film based on real events. The birth of the director inside the carp where the first cinematographer was showing "the train arriving to the station". Being shoot in really simple way it's amazing the proper use of the audiovisual language. The late Guillermo Cabrera Infante showed this film in a Canadian film festival in Spanish without subtitles when the projection finish the audience didn't move and they ask for seen the film again. The effect of this film in the audience is unbelievable. None a single person that has seen this rare Spanish movie could forget it. Except the main actor Fernando Fernan Gomez who never remember work on it.

　　When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia， he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica， who was his first love， living on the first floor with her husband and daughter， and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present希望是件美丽的东西，也许是最好的东西。美好的东西是永远不会死的。

　　Francisco Regueiro - 60-70年代西班牙新电影时期杰出的作者电影导演生命可以归结为一种简单的选择：要么忙于生存，要么赶着去死。