The mid-20s of the last century. In Mexico, the Cristeros revolt is raging, sparked by the government’s persecution of the Catholic Church. Romulo, the leader of one of the rebel groups, ruthlessly shoots the family of a state official and places his mistress Isabel with her daughter Mariana on the estate of the executed. As he pursues scattered government soldiers in the woods, his women await his return in a blood-stained house. It is here that, under cover of night, Captain Felipe sneaks in for
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