While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just like Don José in the original opera, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.

Antonio Gades
as Antonio

Laura del Sol
as Carmen

Paco de Lucía
as Paco

Marisol
as Pepa Flores

Cristina Hoyos
as Cristina

Juan Antonio Jiménez
as Juan

José Yepes
as Pepe Girón

Sebastián Moreno
as Escamillo

Gómez de Jerez
as Cantaores

Manolo Sevilla
as Cantaores