The title of Carlo Levi's memoir, Christ Stopped at Eboli, is emblematic of Fernanda Melchor's depiction of this town. If there had ever been hope for something better, it vanished long ago.
who would give another view of life, and offer ways to change people's wretched lives.
It is a wreck of a place, with no assets that would pull in outsiders. The town is symbolically and factually walled off from the outside world. Any type of news is communicated in a disjointed way and becomes mired in a whirling mess fomented by rumor layered with suspicion and superstition. This is a town physically cut off from other towns and cities, with fragmentary communication. Everyone wants to know who killed the Witch and why? Who would dare to kill someone who had powers that could reach beyond the grave? The inhabitants had always presumed the two women had amassed gold and treasures that were hidden in their wretched estate, and that was the motive for the killing. She was the daughter of another Witch, and both women were thought to possess extraordinary powers, for good and evil, which the town's people feared. In a fictitious town in Mexico, the body of a woman known as the Witch is found in a filthy irrigation ditch.
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