The very first Spanish full featurelength film is based on musical composed by Enric Morera on a libretto by Francesc Pujols i Morgades based on a work by Víctor Balaguer premiered on October 7 1922 at the Tívoli Theater in Barcelona The action takes place around the Catalan gang in the seventeenth century it is a story of impossible love between nyerros and cadells that culminates with the execution of the titled protagonist