to flirt with the older publisher. Shortly afterwards they became lovers. Then Carlos and Esther, now a couple, are seen out near the sea. As she edges toward the cliff, she says, "I'd die so that my love for you will last. So that indifference will not kill it". Calmly the editor's wife confesses that she knew some of it all along. She had hired a detective to spy on her husband. In fact it was the detective who saved Esther when she put her head on the train track. Through the collective memories of the publisher, his wife, and Parker, the corrosion of the romance is recounted. Sick and heartbroken after she was rebuffed by the editor, Esther fell under the spell of a scheming doctor claiming to cure leukemia. While still under his influence Esther met Parker in a hotel in Paris. In love with her, Parker rescued Esther from the false healer. However, Esther never fully recovered from her ill-fated affair with the editor. After some suicide attempts one day Parker found Esther dead with an empty bottle in her hand. Parker now planned to avenge her deceased lover. She started to send the macabre yellow packages. The last of which contains Esther's severed head. The editor then called the police, but when they arrive to Parker's house to investigate she has left with her driver heading back to Paris. Seduced by Parker, the editor's wife goes inside Parker's car and leaves with her. Cast The film has an international cast headed by the French actress Capucine, the Argentinian Carlos Estrada, the British Judy Matheson and the Spanish model and actress Teresa Gimpera.<ref name = "Torres 161">Torres, Diccionario Espasa Cine Español, p. 161</ref> Capucine as Parker (Lucia Fonte) Carlos Estrada as Editor Teresa Gimpera as Editor's wife Judy Matheson as Esther Casino José María Blanco as the writer Alicia Tomás as the secretary Luis Ciges as functionary Joaquín Vilar as child Production After his previous films were met with indifference by critics and audiences, for his third project Spanish film director Vicente Aranda took a commercial approach mixing fantastic and erotic overtones in The Exquisite Cadaver. The film was plagued by a series of problems: it was long in the making; Aranda suffered an accident during the shooting, which forced him to work lying down on a stretcher and finally he had a legal battle with the