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.

1995 film

1948 film by Juan de Orduña

Una historia de la Transición española contada en primera persona por los principales protagonistas: por un lado, los políticos, idealistas o meramente oportunistas, que la llevaron a buen término en las tribunas y los despachos; por otro lado, los ciudadanos que, en las calles, la apoyaron sinceramente o la combatieron con ferocidad. (Precedida por «No se os puede dejar solos»).

1956 film

Two sisters running a small hotel in Spain kill female tourists whose morals do not meet their strict religious standards.

Juan is now in his fifties, has a protruding belly, dyes his hair gray and lives alone with a cat who has urinary problems, but despite this, women still find him attractive.

1959 film by Juan Antonio Bardem

The film is a picture of Tula a woman being single and repressed who believes that she has to help her brother-in-law Ramiro forgetting that she is a woman.