When nurse Gloria has financial difficulties, her friend Dr. Ana Torres invites her to move with her six year-old daughter Vicky to her old big house where she runs a gynecologic clinic. In return, Gloria will assist Ana in her clinic in the afternoons.
Direction
Serrador builds dread through negative space and church bells.
Acting
Nieve de Medina's performance: warm matron, then ice.
Production
Shot on video look that makes everything feel found-footage adjacent.
Director
Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for Spanish state TV in 1976 but banned until 1986 — Franco's censors found abortion too radioactive even for horror.
Serrador also directed 'Who Can Kill a Child?' — this is his stealth feminist companion piece about what society does to women who control their bodies.
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