The Heifer

Plot

Characters

• Brigada Castro, a professional Republican soldier.
• Mariano, a Republican soldier coming from a village across the frontline, where his girlfriend Guadalupe remained.
• Limeño, a Republican soldier who was a bullfighter before the war. Chosen to kill the heifer, he is actually afraid of bulls.
• Lieutenat Broseta, a Republican officer who was a hairdresser before the war. He longs for his profession and threatens to punish failure with a complete head shave.
• Priest, a Republican soldier who almost became Catholic priest. He still remembers many mannerisms.
• Republican Colonel
• Guadalupe, daughter of a Republican and girlfriend of the absent Republican Mariano, she is dating a nationalist Alférez.
• Nationalist Commander, has to deal with his troops and the local aristocrats.
• Juana, mother of Guadalupe, has to hide her Republican husband.
• Alférez, a Nationalist officer courting Guadalupe.
• The marquis is the local aristocrat. He tries to convince the commander to push the front so that all his enormous estate, falls in the Nationalist side. His "inherited" gout forbids him to walk.

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