Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commited suicide.
Affectueuse mais déboussolée, elle vénère une idole païenne. Alma est une petite fille qui fait le clown triste, et l’équilibriste.