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With a message that is certainly slanted to one side, this engaging and well-wrought drama by Antonio Gimenez-Rico attacks the political and intellectual life as so much demagoguery and pedantry, and contrasts politics with the wisdom of a rustic country peasant. The story is told in flashbacks, as the recently widowed wife of a Socialist politician (Juan Luis Galiardo) meets with a successful congressman for lunch. Her late husband retired in 1977 after visiting a small and remote village and talking to a man who lived there. Mayor Cayo (Francisco Rabal), and his wife and lone dog live in one house in the village. The only other house is occupied by a man that Cayo has not associated with for many years. As the Socialist politician debates with Cayo (trying to get his vote) the peasant-mayor debunks politics in general. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide