The small Asturian village of Cenciella, Spain, at the beginning of the twentieth century. The quiet life of Urbano and Estrella, a kind and naive couple in love, is seriously altered when they get involved in the fierce struggle between the local political factions.
This movie has any coherent plot. It is more the portrait of the lives of different people in the hard years of post-war in Spain (the 40's), and how people manage to survive in a country desolated by the war. Like other films: la colmena or roma (fellini) it shows us lots of characters and some moments of their lives.
Once upon a time there was an empire on which the sun never set. This empire had a court. That court had a king, but the king had no heir. The king, who understood that the coupling is the duty of state, gets married and he tries to have a child with exemplary dedication, but he didn't achieve his goal. The whole court, from the nobility to the clowns, gets down to work, sparing no means or methods to achieve the desired heir.
