Donia Rosita the Spinster or The Language of Flowers (1935) is a comedy of kitsch and at the same time a period drama set against the backdrop of the Spanish countryside in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, through the eyes of a woman who painfully accepts the pitiable absurdity of the society that surrounds her and her own existence.

The greatness of Lorca's comedy or drama lies in the rare synthesis it achieves between poetic symbolism and everyday life, between lyricism and human pain.