The story of a young woman clinging on to her dream to become a beauty contest queen in a Mexico dominated by organized crime.
Social & External
Laura Guerrero
Lino Valdez
Jessica Berlanga
Kike Camara
Jimmy
General Salomón Duarte
Agent Bell
Arturo Guerrero
Ramon Guerrero
Azucena 'Suzu' Ramos
Luisa Janes
Javi Fernández
Quiño
Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden possessive dark side, a controlling and abusive alter ego that can turn trust, love and tranquility into terror. Terrified for her child's safety, Slim flees with her daughter. Relentless in his pursuit and enlisting the aid of lethal henchmen, Mitch continually stalks the prey that was once his family.
Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit and contains additional titles, music and voice-over added later than 1961. 65 minutes.) Filmed in Mytilene and Annavysos, Greece, 1958. Existing copy on video, J. and M. Paris Films, Athens.
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