Santa Sangre plot
"Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen."
Little Fenix works as a magician in a circus in Mexico City. His father is a hot-tempered knife thrower in a leopard skin that is too small. His mother, a trapezist who is also the high priestess of a religious cult, dedicated to a virgin without arms. When the father plunges into a voluptuously tattooed Fellinian wench, he is emasculated by his wife with nitric acid. Before slitting his throat, he demonstrates his knife dexterity one last time by chopping off her arms. Enough to inflict some trauma on the young son. At the age of twenty, Fenix is allowed to leave the institution, but he is enslaved by his mother. The two perform a grotesque pantomime number, where he lends her his arms and their bodies become one. Together they tread a bloody path of revenge. But are we dealing here with delusions or is it all happening for real?