Santa Sangre (18)

Felix harks from a long line of circus folk: his father Orgo is a knife-thrower and his mother Concha is a trapeze artist. The young man bears witness to his father’s adulterous transgressions with the Tattooed Woman and the subsequent fallout when his mother discovers the affair and punishes her husband by pouring sulphuric acid on his nether regions. Felix is mentally scarred by the episode and he ends up in an institution.