Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The Consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Jacqueline Bisset | Yvonne Firmin | |
Anthony Andrews | Hugh Firmin | |
Ignacio López Tarso | Dr. Vigil | |
Katy Jurado | Senora Gregoria | |
James Villiers | Brit | |
Dawson Bray | Quincey |
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