Divinas palabras (Divine Words)

Though the condemnation is not final, Divinas Parabras focuses on human monstrosity. In a rainy, poverty-stricken village of Galizia, an old beggar woman dies, leaving behind a treasure: her hydrocephalic son with whom she went begging. Every relative dives for this golden goose in a pitiful hand-drawn cart. In the end the orphan is split between the sacristan's pretty young wife Mari Gaila and her sister-in-law. At the prompting of a sharp friend, Rosa la Tatula, Mari begins taking her nephew to county fairs, where he brings in a lot of money along with other unfortunates. Her initial motivation is simple greed, but gradually Mari uses her new found freedom to meet Septimo Miau, a roguish gypsy. Divine vengeance strikes when she leaves the boy unattended in a tavern and he is given so much liquor he dies. The sacristan tries to make a little more money by exhibiting the dead body. The jealous town fold catch Mari and try to stone her to death ... (Yung. in Variety, 14.10.1987).