Federico Gamboa

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz.

A woman working in a caribean Cabaret meets a man in the harbour that just went out of jail. They recognise in each other common feelings of rage and fury and then they fall in love in a story without words.

A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.

Tras quedar embarazada del militar Marcelino, la joven Santa pierde a su hijo y llega al prostíbulo de doña Elvira. Allí se encuentra a gusto entre las mujeres que le enseñan buenos modales y el pianista ciego Hipólito, su enamorado incondicional. Convertida en amante del torero Jarameño, Santa está a punto de irse con él a España cuando Marcelino vuelve a aparecer en su vida.

Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.

First version of Gamboa's novel about a young and innocent girl who is betrayed by the man she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.