The explosive and controversial film version of El crimen del Padro Amaro moves the action of the original novel from nineteenth-century Portugal to modern Mexico. Both worlds share a rigid provincial
Young, virile Father Amaro (whose name means "bitter" in Portuguese) arrives in Leira and is taken in as a lodger by Sao Joaneira. Her budding, devout, dewy-lipped daughter Amelia is soon lusted after
