本片取材自真实事件。19世纪中叶的阿根廷，一个年轻的天主教信徒卡蜜拉跟一个耶稣教教士发生恋情，虽然两人都极力压抑自己内心的感情而陷入痛苦中，但终究卡蜜拉勇敢地走出第一步并收获短暂的幸福。但他们的结合破坏了家庭和教会的清规戒律，遭到当局的追捕。在逃亡数百里后不幸被捕，后被处死。

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Love of great literature is one of the outstanding features of South American culture. This Argentine drama, mixes imagination and "reality" and includes a film-within-a-film story about making a film about Kafka. The writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born to a German Jewish family in Czechoslovakia. In an uncanny way which prefigured the Holocaust, Kafka wrote about absurd, terrifying situations taking place in a nihilistic universe in which almost everyone can be considered a victim. The movie explores his romantic and intellectual life before he died at age 41 of tuberculosis. Sigmund Freud, whom Kafka never actually met, makes an appearance in the story. The film-within-a-film has an Argentine movie director travel to Prague to try and produce a film there about Kafka's loves, only to discover that the studio there is busy filming Amadeus. Though these elements are confusing to read about, some reviewers felt that the director somehow made a coherent and enjoyable film out of them.