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