Juan Antonio Jiménez

Cristina returns to her hometown Cuernavaca after a seven year absence. The bittersweet reunion with her brother Mauricio unravels old and tragic memories. Cristina, determined to heal their relationship, collapses its fragile stability.

A gypsy who sells fish in a market, sings on weekends in a tablao. One day, a professor, exiled in Cádiz for her political ideas, offers the cantaora a job.

In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. Carmelo, who secretly loves Candela since he was a boy, is arrested while helping José and unfairly sent to prison. Four years later he is released and declares his love for Candela. However, the woman is cursed by a bewitched love and every night she goes to the place where José died to dance with his ghost.

보수적인 지방 출신의 하사관 돈 호세는 자유분방하고 관능적인 집시여인 카르멘을 보고 한눈에 반한다. 카르멘은 동료와의 다툼으로 인해 감옥으로 끌려가고, 돈 호세는 그녀를 감옥에서 구해준다. 카르멘과 집시 생활을 하던 돈 호세는 어느 날 그의 약혼녀 미카엘라로부터 어머니가 위독하다는 소식을 듣고 고향으로 내려간다. 그 사이 카르멘은 투우사 에스카밀로에게 마음을 빼앗기고, 이를 알게된 돈 호세는 이성을 잃게 되는데…

While rehearing Carmen of Bizet, the middle-aged choreographer Antonio brings the sexy Carmen to perform the lead role. Antonio falls in love for Carmen, who is an independent and seductive woman incapable to accept a possessive love. When Carmen has an affair with another dancer, Antonio is consumed by his jealousy like D. José in the original opera, entwining fiction with reality.

A bride elopes with her lover on the very day of her wedding. The groom follows the two lovers, and a knife fight takes place. The rivals stab each other and the only wedding that takes place is that one knotting their destinies together in death. A blood wedding.