The Woman of the Port
Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night....
Her father dies... her fiance dumps her... and she can't find a job... so she covers the waterfront. And then one night....
Orphaned, abandoned by her fiance, forced into prostitution by the absence of "respectable" alternatives.And the-e-en....
Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view..