This documentary is a effort to recover the memory of The Sacromonte, a suburb of Granada city. Chus Gutiérrez researches the relation between the suburb and the flamenco.
Rafael Amargo is an artist who at the age of 35 feels his muses have abandoned him. Something many artists go through at some given moment. He feels a need to seek inspiration to rekindle the magic of the art fairy. This launches him on a journey that will take him to the source of such kind of inspiration, crossing seas, mountains and many roads until he arrives at the the refuge of the real protagonist of this film. His goal is to hand a letter from Lorca to the muse, Chavela Vargas.
Rafael Amargo is an artist who at the age of 35 feels his muses have abandoned him. Something many artists go through at some given moment. He feels a need to seek inspiration to rekindle the magic of the art fairy. This launches him on a journey that will take him to the source of such kind of inspiration, crossing seas, mountains and many roads until he arrives at the the refuge of the real protagonist of this film. His goal is to hand a letter from Lorca to the muse, Chavela Vargas.
This documentary tells the facts Lorca inspired to write "Blood Wedding", through the eyes of Maria Botto, actress whom Rafael Amargo intends to participate in the girlfriend role in a montage, mixing theater and dance, on the well-known work of Spanish poet and playwright. What initially began as a simple interest of an actress to know and understand her character, ends up becoming a rite of passage in search of the reality of the facts, the crime of Níjar, occurred on July 22, 1928 in a small town Almeria.
비잔틴 제국을 침략한 투르크족과 전쟁을 벌이다 외아들까지 잃은 노쇠한 황제는 유명한 용병 장군 티란테에게 도움을 요청한다. 비잔틴의 수도인 콘스탄티노플에 도착한 티란테는 황제의 딸 카르멘시나 공주에게 첫눈에 반하고 공주 또한 늠름한 장군에게 마음을 빼앗긴다. 하지만 티란테와 카르멘시나는 신분의 격차 때문에 비밀리에 사랑을 주고 받는다. 그 와중에 카르멘시나와 마찬가지로 티란테에게 반한 공주의 유모이자 미망인인 아니스가 두 사람 사이를 방해하고 시시때때로 장군을 유혹한다. 한편 정상이 아닌 황제 내외와 투르크 족의 위협 때문에 나라의 미래가 불투명해지자 공주의 시녀들은 티란테와 공주를 이어 주고 그에게 제국을 맡기려고 한다. 하지만 순결을 지키려는 카르멘시나 때문에 그들의 동침 시도는 번번이 실패로 돌아간다. 이런 상황에서 투르크 왕이 카르멘시나를 아내로 주면 전쟁을 끝내겠다고 제안해 오는데...
