LOCATION
Tabernas, Rambla del Saltador / A349

SCENE
Juan, a bandido wearing a black arm band, awaits the arrival of the stage coach.

As the coach arrives he flags it down and asks for a lift to his father's funeral.

The driver halts a little way down the track and eventually agrees to let him board.

The genteel occupants of the coach sneer at his arrival and mock his peasant habits.

LOCATION
Tabernas (A-92, Venta de Canicas)

SCENE
The coach struggles uphill past a farmhouse.  Children run out and lock the wheels with stones.  It is an ambush set up by Juan's family.

The occupants of the coach are relieved of their valuables and most of their clothing, loaded into a cart and pushed downhill into a pig-pen.

Juan is puzzled by the sounds of explosions in the valley.