Españolas en París (1971)

(Contains the ending of the film) The film deals with the lives of Spanish women who emigrated to Paris for work in the early 1970s. One of them is Isabel, a young woman from Sigüenza and the eldest of five siblings, who moves to the French capital to work as a maid in the home of a wealthy family, the Lemoniers. There she befriends other Spanish women, including Emilia, Dioni, and Francisca. She also meets Manolo, a young chauffeur who makes no secret of the fact that he has a girlfriend in Madrid, whom he hopes to marry and live with in an apartment as soon as he has saved enough money. But Isabel and Manolo fall in love. Her friends, especially Emilia, advise her not to go out with him, but the relationship continues, and she becomes pregnant. Manolo does not want her to have the child, and tries, unsuccessfully, to force her to have an abortion. Finally, disillusioned, she cuts Manolo out of her life and struggles on her own to raise her child, seeking a more dignified future. The film ends with José Agustín Goytisolo’s poem “Words for Julia.”