sentences:  The play focuses entirely on the two principal characters, Carmela and Paulino, and tells their story largely in flashback.When it begins, Paulino is alone and depressed, for Carmela is already dead, the victim of a fascist bullet at their last performance as variety artist.In the first part of the play Carmela returns as a ghost to converse with Paulino, blaming him for all that has happened, and in the second part evokes in detail the fatal performance.