Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl living in a small village in rural Spain after the Spanish Civil War, is traumatized when a traveling projectionist shows a copy of James Whale's 1931 film "Frankenstein" to the village. The little boy is very upset by the parts of the movie where the monster kills the little girl and is then killed by the villagers. She asks her sister about the meaning of life and death, and she believes her when she says that the monster is still alive as a ghost who lives in a barn near them. When a Loyalist soldier on the run from Franco's winning army hides out in the barn, Ana leaves the real world and goes into her own fantasy world.
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Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl living in a small village in rural Spain after the Spanish Civil War, is traumatized when a traveling projectionist shows a copy of James Whale's 1931 film "Frankenstein" to the village. The little boy is very upset by the parts of the movie where the monster kills the little girl and is then killed by the villagers. She asks her sister about the meaning of life and death, and she believes her when she says that the monster is still alive as a ghost who lives in a barn near them. When a Loyalist soldier on the run from Franco's winning army hides out in the barn, Ana leaves the real world and goes into her own fantasy world.
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