There was something overly feminine, too soft, too pale about her, that made me want to grab her, shake her, slap her, and ultimately own her." The tranquility of a Galician village is disturbed by the arrival of a young woman with a magnetic sensuality. Suiza is all the more attractive because she is innocence itself. Like all the men who meet her, TomÔas is immediately crazy about her. But what is at the beginning only a violent carnal desire is transformed little by little ...