马德里，20世纪60年代初。居住在马拉维亚的埃洛伊萨太太全身心投入在母亲和妻子的 角色中。然而她的家庭带给她的苦难远多于快乐。她的丈夫是一名脾气暴躁的市政警 卫，他在家中实施的专制比大街上还多。儿子在即将担任神职前放弃了神学院的学业， 在书本与祈祷中消磨时日，为家庭赎罪。而她的两个女儿痴迷于金钱，彼此间充满深深 的仇恨。

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

1961 Spanish-Mexican film by Luis Buñuel