The Nail

The film is set in Spain at the end of the nineteenth century. Judge Javier Zarco meets a woman while travelling. She tells him her name is Blanca. Something quick and strong grows between them. Before leaving for his new post, Zarco asks her to marry him. Blanca accepts, though her manner is strange. He goes on to his new city and writes to her. No answer comes. All trace of the woman is lost. Zarco begins to doubt that she loved him. Meanwhile a skull is found in a cemetery. A nail has been driven into it. The judge understands that a murder took place. An investigation begins, and the two lines draw closer together. The film was adapted from a novel. Amparo Rivelles and Rafael Durán appear in the eighty nine minute film, a Spanish production Rafael Gil finished in 1944.