The Place Without Limits (1978): Cast & Plot

Manuela [Roberto Cobo] and her daughter Japonesita [Ana Martín] sleep inside a house when a truck rumbles up and honks its horn. The sound belongs to Pancho [Gonzalo Vega], a man who has hurt Manuela before, even tearing her iconic red flamenco dress. Startled, Manuela wakes the other women of the brothel and searches for red thread to mend the dress, but is ultimately sent to Ludovinia [Emma Roldán], an elderly, deaf woman who hands over the thread. Ludovinia then shares a troubling memory: Don Alejo [Fernando Soler], the town’s mayor, once showed interest in Pancho, hiring him to drag his daughter in a wagon and nudging him toward schooling. As Manuela leaves, she bumps into Don Alejo, who casually proposes buying the brothel.