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Based on a popular romance from the 15th-16th centuries known as Romance del Conde Flores or Romance de la Condesita, with multiple versions in Spain, Portugal and America.

Plot

The newlywed Count Flores leaves for war and will not return. The Countess waits for the three years the Count told her and then some more. Her parents ask her to remarry, but she, dressed in mourning, sets out in search of him to see if he is alive. She finally finds him, rich, owner of a castle and about to marry. The Countess, without being discovered, asks him for his will. He, together with his bride, gives her a real. She, not satisfied, reveals herself and the Count falls to the ground, struck down.

‘First loves are very hard to forget’.

He returns to the Countess and the bride who was going to marry alone will remain.