Un joven llamado Pau Arrese, que mantiene una relación, algo deteriorada, con una chica (Gloria), contempla como las riendas de su vida se le escapan, cuando, tras una serie de desafortunados incidentes, da con sus huesos en la cárcel. En el interior...
A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law....
The story is very basic; it deals with the adventures of young street-criminals in Madrid who graduate from car-theft to bank-robbery. What's interesting is the way Saura makes us care about these "hijos de nadie", who are kind and decent people 50% ...