Mexican provocateur Arturo Ripstein takes the ever-ripe lovers-on-the-run premise of dime-store pulp to its deliriously overheated, wickedly perverse extreme. In 1940s Mexico, a lusty nurse meets a balding con man through a lonely hearts ad, and it's not long before they're off on a cross-country crime spree robbing and murdering widows in between bouts of carnal passion.
