Like Salvador Puig Antich, this film focuses its attention on heightening the audience’s emotional sensibility to the main characters by drawing out the hours before the inevitable execution scene. The “thirteen roses” are sketchily introduced, and are presented as lost young girls who, on the whole, have no real idea of the politics which will lead to their death. Beyond trying to help a friend, who happens to be a communist, by giving him money, throwing a few pamphlets in the street and later refusing to salute and sing the Fascist hymn, the characters -and the film in general- remain absolutely apolitical. It seems that thirteen young girls were executed for asking for food for the dying children in the prison they were in, without explaining why they were there in the first place and without doing justice to the republican ideas they, one assumes, died for.