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Elena’s life abruptly changes after her mother leaves the family for another man and her father commits suicide. She moves to a new city and tries to start her life anew. Her fresh start is repeatedly interrupted by men who harass her, however, eventually forcing her into prostitution.Elena defiantly endures her new life, in the meantime plotting her revenge on everyone who conspired against her. Elena obstinately refuses to accept her miserable situation.

Ben Singer: “This noir-inflected melodrama epitomizes the cabaratera subgenre animating the mid-century Golden Era of Mexican popular cinema. A hothouse of sordid exploitation and unruly passion, the narrative complicates commonplaces about the genre’s basis in simplistic morality and passive protagonists.”

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