I'm not a Braga fan, but she smolders in this film in a very primitive and animalistic way, which was probably a combination of the director and her own interpretation. The movie is really all about her, and secondarily the bar owner, Nacib (Mastrioanni). I feel proud of myself for getting the end, I think. Nacib takes on this wild woman and, slightly against her wishes, marries her and then proceeds to attempt to change her into a modern, "respectable" wife. It works, and doesn't work, as the now former wild woman ends up fooling around behind Nacib's back - just like many of the other town's "respectable" and married women do. After a divorce or annulment or whatever they pull off, things appear to go back to the way it used to be.
