Rafael Gil’s Una mujer cualquiera (US: An Ordinary Woman) packs a lot of plot into 90 minutes: after a beautiful woman’s child dies, she leaves her wealthy husband (“You have no skills, just beauty,” he tells her), moves into a boarding house, meets a mysterious man, witnesses a murder for which she is later framed, falls in love with the actual murderer, flees with him to the countryside to evade the police, and navigates endless threats on the way to her fate, which will involve at least two more murders. The woman is Nieves Blanco (María Félix), a South American woman living in Madrid, and the mysterious man with the killer instinct is Luis (Antonio Vilar), whose interest in Nieves goes beyond simple romance. Carolina Jiménez plays Rosa, a young girl who had had her sights set on Luis before Nieves came along, and Juan Espantaleón plays the police chief who’s set on tracking down the couple and solving the murder case. The film is a feminist paradox: on one hand, Nieves musters the will to leave her comfortable marriage and fend for herself, but on the other hand, she fairly quickly falls under the spell of another man, blind to his selfish intentions, which will lead to her doom.