Alfonso de Horna

A group of French girls seek refuge from the German soldiers in the castle of a Spanish marquis. He will tell them the story of his ancestor “the executioner” during the Peninsular war.

The Philippines, 1898, during the Spanish-American War. Fifty Spanish soldiers guarding the outpost established in the small village of Baler endure the cruel siege of the Filipino rebels for eleven months, although the war is almost lost…