El ángel de la guarda

In an unspecified part of England, Jane and Rachel—two girls who seem to have stepped out of a Lewis Carroll photograph—converse under the bewildered gaze of their tutor, Botvid, who effectively serves as their manservant. Arrogant, stern, and melancholic, they live in voluntary seclusion within an oppressive atmosphere, cut off from the outside world. Things shift slightly with the arrival of a certain guardian angel, while the resemblance between the two intensifies rapidly: it is as if Lewis Carroll’s Alice, rather than stepping through the looking-glass, were forced to see herself endlessly reflected in another person. Though the sisters seem headed for catastrophe, it never arrives; their world appears static, suspended in time, and detached from everything—a fantastical, delirious Wonderland.