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On one hand, she's a benevolent industrialist who presides over a warmly matriarchal society; on the other, she wants to destroy the forest, harness its resources, and exterminate its animal deities--chiefly the Spirit of the Forest, a magnificent deer god whose touch brings instant life or death, and who transforms at dusk into the towering Night Walker.
His grief-stricken mother (Cecilia Roth) goes off in search of the father the boy never met--now an AIDS-ridden transvestite in Barcelona--and ends up at the center of a benign matriarchal society that includes the very actress (Marisa Paredes) that her son was pursuing.
In the early 1500s, Aztecs conquered the province of Coyuca, located between present-day Zihuatanejo and the Coyuca lagoon, and established a coastal capital, which they called Zihuatlan, “Place of Women,” named for the local matriarchal society.