Divorced woman has to deal with blowback from the fact that her second marriage is only a civil union and not a church wedding. Meanwhile, her young-adult son is falling in love with a divorcee of his own, and faing severe opposition from his father over his choice of partners..
Acting
Marga López anchors the melodrama with wounded dignity.
Production
Glossy 1950s Mexico City bourgeois interiors as social weapon.
Director
Emilio Gómez Muriel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mexico's 1917 Constitution technically permitted divorce, but Catholic social pressure made it career suicide for women — this film captures that brutal paradox.
Director Emilio Gómez Muriel was blacklisted during the McCarthy era for leftist sympathies; his return to Mexican cinema brought sharper social critique to melodrama.
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