This beautiful, atmospheric Chilean movie (made by an Argentinian director) was unfortunately "cannibalized" by Jerry Warren, who kept about a third of the original footage, together with another third of "La dama de la muerte" (another superb Chilean movie of the same period, made by Argentinian director Carlos Hugo Christensen), then added his own senseless "additional sequences" with John Carradine and Katherine Victor, the final result being the atrocious CURSE OF THE STONE HAND.

The characters are refugees from the war who have arrived in America. Ricardo Moller is a scientist who the war has left sexually mutilated, while Arturo Gonzálvez is a professor who believes that another passenger is insane, unaware that she is his wife accompanied by their children.

María Contreras (María Maluenda), a young girl from the Andes, wins a contest that allows her to travel to the United States and to triumph in Hollywood as an actress.