Dr. Henry Mills a very renowned cardiac specialist, disagrees with his wife, because of their religious beliefs, and more particularly because it encourages his son Ernesto to follow the priesthood. Mills is unfaithful to his wife, Isabel. She knows her husband's betrayal, and he secretly decides to separate, without sharing the marital bed, but keeping a secret from society.
Acting
Amparo Rivelles' silent suffering could stop your heart.
Direction
Demicheli frames every room like a prison.
Writing
Dialogue so polite it's practically violent.
Director
Tulio Demicheli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Franco's Spain, the film's church-versus-medicine tension was actually subversive—criticizing religious dominance without getting banned required surgical precision.
Arturo de Córdova and Amparo Rivelles had already played doomed spouses in earlier films; their chemistry here carries decades of cinematic baggage.
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