Maria Candelaria

A melancholic portrait of social rejection and doomed love set in a rural indigenous community, told through the frame of an artist's memory.

A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.