Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour,...
A soldier is assigned to guard the body of a man who was shot. During the night, he encounters a widow who is watching over the burial of her ex-husband.
