There was a time in the existence of the Coahuila State in Mexico, a woman named Maria de la Luz Guzman. She was young and simple-looking, was busy in daily chores and work combining mother, who educated his daughter Mary of the Angels. In one town with dirt streets and modest houses away from each other of the neighbors, she began to instruct the little girl in their learning of numbers, vowels and colors.

That night in unbearable heat, when the sweat appears to be distilled from the body which sponge full of water, light the lamp lit by flashing his light inside the hut, Maria de la Luz took the last fat corn cooked on the blade the stove was on a heap of stones where they trusted burning logs. After placing the fat wrapped in a blanket dryer on the table consists of tables for two heat waves, Nieves, her husband had carefully pinned and cut for use in the kitchen daily. Kisses on the cheek of the little girl who lay on the bed, half sleeping under the translucent white sheet and the use of several years. The mother sat in the chair beside the table ixtle holding the lamp and wrapped in her shawl, waited patiently for the arrival of her husband to serve the beans in pot with cilantro I had prepared for dinner. Can not think of more than sing out loud a prayer now known, that the same girl sleepy still unconsciously

Our Father which art in heaven.
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy Kingdom Come …

It failed to finish his sentence because a knock at the door suddenly pulled out of their business. Called desperately instinctively took a clay pot that was at hand in an attitude of defense. After asking who came to his door, he knew the voice of Don Melquiades, a friend of her husband, who insisted that the woman opened the door because he had very serious news to her husband.

Upon hearing this, Maria de la Luz dropped the jar and quickly opened the door and enters Melquiades hurry. Alarmed questions to Don Melquiades on such news about her husband, who did not even stop to think about how bad it was seen in that town that a man entered the home with a woman without being present the man of the house. The man rushed narrates that Nieves has been beaten brutally in the canteen of the people and that he was in a deplorable state by the beatings.

There was no time for more questioning, a brutal force shot down the door of the hut, and in a rage turned into a cry: Just wanted them catch you!, Enters Nieves, the husband of Maria de la Luz beating women and filling it with insults . Don Melquiades no one else had disappeared, leaving in that picture a man hitting a beating to his wife, accusing her of adultery, while a little girl of five years on the bed crying.

Word spread quickly through the town of Villa de Rosales, Maria de la Luz Guzman, had been unfaithful to her husband Nieves, the image of that young woman was synonymous with sin and vulgarity to the conservative conscience of that community. Hut was pitch pushed inflicted by Nieves Saucedo, the husband cheated. And yelling and hitting him in the face spat never see her daughter.

Unable to believe what was happening shook her dress and went crying road rising to their families, who could not understand what happened awarded welcome their daughter accused.