In the sunlight of Castille, a fortune teller predicts love and death for Juana. Her loved one, a young bullfighter offers her a beautiful white shawl. A foreigner arrives in town, as blonde as Juana is brunette. When the bullfighter gets charmed by the blonde, Juana puts on a black shawl. The two women are both played by the one and only Musidora, a confusing fantasy that highlights the story’s tragedy. Noteworthy is the way Musidora as director films the Spanish landscape.

Musidora (1889-1957), actress, writer and filmmaker, is the famous Irma Vep of the Vampires (1915) by Louis Feuillade. She became the muse of several surrealists. Musidora’s films Minne (1916), and La Vagabonde (1917) are adaptations of novels by her friend writer Collete, who is also the screenwriter for her film The Hidden Flame (1918). Musidora wrote and directed Vicenta (1919). Hired by Henri Langlois, director of La Cinémathèque française, she researched the history of silent cinema.