It is based on the novel of the same title by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón.

Judge Joaquín Zarco (Rafael Durán) travel in a stagecoach with a beautiful woman, Blanca (Amparo Rivelles).

They fall in love but she disappears... Future filmmaker José Antonio Nieves Conde was the director's assistant.

In 1944, it won second place in the Best Film category of the 'National Syndicate of Spectacle'.

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