Eldorado

House of dance...

House of pleasure...

Excess.

The noise increases. The room is full. There is a smell of tobacco and wine.

Anxious, lost souls. Sibilla, one of the dancers.

It's you, Sibilla! Come on, Sibilla!

In a room above, a child is very sick.

Mom. Sibilla!

She dances! She grins and dances to the desires of men.

Even Joao, the clown, watches her with horrible lust in his eyes.

Sibilla is too much for this place!

Mom...

Mom

I'm cold!

"The mountain wind does not blow out the candle,

but will kill a man," says the Analucian proverb.

Is he sleeping?

I am a widower. My daughter, Jhrna, is already grown.

There is no impediment to our happiness.

Promises... twelve years of lies...

On the other side of this happy city,

Styria, a vain man will tomorrow announce the engagement of his daughter to

a ruined nobleman, according to his strict principles.

Styria has already decided to deny this past... to ignore Sibilla.

Carry this to El Dorado; ask for Sibilla.

Our son is sick... my pay is not enough to care for him.

Once again, despite your wickedness, I ask for your help for him.

If you do not, our son will die. Sibilla.

A sad gypsy dance, distant, like his soul.

The next day

In the neighboring mountains a country home.

Hosted by a Scandinavian lady

And her son, Hedwick.

Studying in the country as a painter

Are you going?

Hedwick is in love.

Soon towards the Alhambra...

In order to earn money, Sibilla leaves Albacyn and serves as Hedwick's model and guide.

Hedwick is distracted by the image of a young girl in white.

Iliana, for her part, is moved by a love that only her mistress knows about.

Sibilla shows him the Lion's Court, and tries to soothe his impatience.

The cards say:

Mr. Hedwick has met a lady in the Alhambra. Proud and sweet,

She is in the image of this palace. Hedwick loves her, but...

she is the fiancee of another.

That girl, who is she?

Or rather, where has he seen her?

They announce my engagement tonight.

But around 9 o'clock, I will run here ...to see you again!

With her white dress... it is Miss Styria.

They say that her dowry is so huge it draws vermin from all over Albaycin.

At twilight, a new disaster.

The doctor will not come... He said that you owe him a lot!

The doctor's refusal makes up Sibilla's mind.

To save her child, she will goes to the home of ...

Styria... to his father. She will beg!

It is the evening that Iliana, Styria's daughter, will be betrothed, against her will,

to the Duke of Hormuz, who has dazzled her father.

Concepcion, the owner, defends her against the tyrant.

Try not to be seen today in the streets, and behave as I have ordered you.

A whirlwind of festivities fills the whole city.

From the winding "streets"...

to the slopes of the mountains where the gypsies live in caves.

Sibilla hurries, but the festivities delay her.

Finally...

The festival is in full swing.

Sibilla? I don't know anyone by that name!

Coward!