The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
as Lucha Reyes
as Pedro Calderón
as La Jaira
as Doña Victoria
as Klaus Eder
as Oñate
as Luzma
as Balmori
as Gimeno
as Araujo
as Gato Linares
as Serge
as Pulque Saleswoman
as Bernal
as Marga
as Angelina
as Beggar
as Magdaleno
as Mujer
as Policía
