In pre-Civil War Spain, a little girl witnesses her famous matador uncle become plagued by superstition and deteriorate in his craft.

In 1920, a girl who works with her stepfather for the town butcher recounts when a woman from a nearby Native American reservation came to work at the shop. While the woman never did anything herself, the girl believes she is the cause of a series of troubling events.

A contemporary Indian housewife’s peace is broken when she notices that her dog is locked in a dance to the death with a cobra.