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Blood wedding concerns the relationship of the Bride, who is not allowed to marry the man she is in love with (Leonardo) as their families do not get along. Subsequently, Leonardo marries another woman and the Bride is also arranged to be married to another man who her family approve of but whom she doesn't love. Although Leonardo is married already, he confesses to the Bride that he is still in love with her. At first, she rejects him and tells him to be quiet, but then confesses that she still loves him, too. Despite these revelations, she feels pressured to go on with her marriage to the other man (Bridegroom), but on the night of her wedding reception, she elopes with Leonardo. When their disappearance is revealed, the Mother commands that everybody search for them. In the forest that the Bride and Leonardo have fled into, the play begins to become more poetical, dark and surreal. The Moon and Death (the beggar) work together to encourage the Bridegroom and Leonardo to kill one another; Leonardo and the Bridegroom meet and kill each other in a duel. At the end of the play, the Bride returns to the church hoping the Bridegroom's Mother will kill her. There are two versions of the play, one in which the two women reflect upon the deaths of the men and another where the Bride is killed as a sacrifice to restore order and balance.