sentences:  Disfigured in the explosion and his personality transformed by misfortune, Juan Marés falls deeper into indigence and schizophrenic hallucinations.Obsessed with the happiness he has lost and with the memory of his wife, he encounters Norma while he is performing on the streets, but she fails to recognize him.In disguise, Marés talks to her again during the carnival in Barcelona; only at the end of their talk does he impart a clue to his identity.