The Innocents (Spanish: Los inocentes) is a 1963 Argentine-Spanish drama film written and directed by Juan Antonio Bardem, starring Alfredo Alcón and Paloma Valdés.
[1] Set mostly in the Argentine city of Mar del Plata, it tells the story of an innocent and sincere young woman from a rich background falling in love with an older bereaved man who her family will never accept.
[2] The life of Bruno, a bank employee aged 29, is overturned when his wife is found dead alongside the driver of a wrecked car, one of the Ezzquellia brothers who are major industrialists.
Though they become secret lovers, he does not believe the relationship can last and takes a job in another city, where she tracks him down and persuades him to promise marriage.
When Elena tracks him down at the railway station where his train is waiting, he rings the Ezzquellias, who get the police to arrest her as a runaway minor in moral danger.