The Proud and the Beautiful
“Strips Bare of Prim Morality a Side of Love That Women Won't Admit - Even to Themselves!”
The first to die in an epidemic of meningitis in Vera Cruz is a French tourist. His wife Nellie, detached and indifferent, feels little grief and realizes that her coldness is her own doom. Over the next two days, she is attracted to George, a local drunk who does odd jobs for brothels and dances grotesquely for tourists in exchange for drinks. George has his own dark secret, a tragedy he caused that leaves him with a death wish. In assisting the local doctor to cope with the epidemic, these two emotional cripples enable each other to rediscover reasons to live and to love.
Under a suffocating heatwave, two lost souls find an unexpected, desperate connection. It's a raw, intimate portrayal of isolation and the yearning for redemption, where even the most broken can find a flicker of hope.
