An artist finds and rescues a mermaid in a sewer. He takes her home with him and she develops sores all over her body that begin to pustulate and bleed. He uses what oozes from her sores to paint her portrait. When he can no longer handle it anymore he breaks down and dismembers her body.
For years, this movie's original prints were under restoration at the Mexico National Autonomous University Filmotheque (Filmoteca de la UNAM), to be finally released in 2001. During 2000, Mexican music ensemble LAUDES was comissioned to write a score for the (silent)movie. On 1 August 2002, on occasion of Juan Diego being elevated to Sainthood, Mexican TV Channel Once TV broadcast the fully restored movie from the original surviving prints, as a special event, with LAUDES performing the scor ...[Read Story ]