The play of Lorca is a poetic hymn to fertility, motherhood and social oppression of the woman. In a Spanish rural village, Yerma, a married, young woman, becomes the object of gossip, because she can't bear children. Desperate and melancholic, after using up all the natural and metaphysical methods, (spell bounding etc.) reaches an impasse and makes her revolt: she kills her husband and thus all the values that he is representing. This violent outbreak of Yerma, blind and catastrophic, expresses the messages and the desires for a life without conventional and soul-destroying relationships. Lorca penetrates deeply in the structures of existence of the heroes and detects their essential needs, showing the suffering of privation and of the no contact leading to death.