Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.
Genres: Drama
Keywords: 1930s , alcoholic , alcoholism , based-on-novel-or-book , bullfighting , consul , cuckold , day-of-the-dead , depression , drunk , fascism , foreign-diplomat , half-brother , husband-wife-relationship , mexico