When the smoke dissipates, a group of men celebrating victory appears while the woman waves a flag at the top of the city walls.
Agustina Raimunda María Saragossa Doménech, known as Agustina de Aragón, was an active defensor of the city who has become famous for one particular action: On June 15, 1808, the French army stormed the Portillo, an ancient gateway into the city defended by a hodgepodge battery of old cannons and a heavily outnumbered volunteer unit.
Agustina, arriving on the ramparts with a basket of apples to feed the gunners, watched the nearby defenders fall to French bayonets.
With the French troops a few yards away, Agustina herself ran forward, loaded a cannon, and lit the fuse, shredding a wave of attackers at point-blank range.
This action has been the subject of a monumental statue erected in Saragossa and of several paintings, which have inspired the design of the set for the film.