... an idiot is born every minute... if people weren't idiots, the world would be ungovernable.
1876-1890. Cristino Lobatón, a native of Veracruz of French descent, aspires to become a great businessman. Look for something that will allow you to do it quickly and decisively. He finds it in someone unimaginable: Lucía Zárate, a Mexican Lilliputian woman, with such a fine figure, so perfect that it's like seeing a normal woman in miniature. Lucía causes an irrational fascination that makes her the most notable star in Mexico (President Díaz himself received her) and in the United States at the end of the 19th century. Lucía only has to let herself be watched to be a success and she and Lobatón learn that quickly. Lucía becomes THE STAR of P.T. Barnum's freak show in New York, falling in love and marrying, while Lobatón starts a business manufacturing and transporting opium. Upon Lucía's return, after a tour of Europe, Lobatón begins a last one from New York to San Francisco, using it as a cover up for the clandestine transport of his merchandise. This is the story of this man who knew how to exploit Lucía and others, being her biggest victim. Lucía goes from a life of glamor, with little love and a certain amount of abuse, to misery with a mortal fate, while he is also digging his own grave. Based on the novel, “The Electric Body” by Jordi Soler, based on dramatized and fictionalized historical characters and events.
