Overview
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
Cast
- Lucha Villa as María del Rayo, la Coquena
- Narciso Busquets as Don Ernesto Domínguez
- Andrés García as Luciano
- Fernando Balzaretti as David Domínguez
- Sergio Bustamante as Don Pancho
- Aurora Clavel as Madre Soldadera
- Patricia Aspíllaga as Claudia Guadalajara
- Evangelina Martínez as Petrita
- Bruno Rey as General Cardiel
- Lina Montes as Doña Cuca