(La Alberca, Abadia, Spanish Bath, Mahgreb.) Later images depicted Tripoli, Lebanon, Nineveh and Samarra in Iraq, and Luxor, Egypt.
He took the habit at Alberca, in Old Castile, 18 October 1600, and made his profession at the house of the Carmelites of the Old Observance, at Madrid, in 1602.
The film focuses on the Las Hurdes region of Spain, the mountainous area around the town La Alberca, and the intense poverty of its occupants.