Pastora Peña

Ana and Andres meet again after many years. They are no longer two youngsters, both are married with children. Andres insists, but Ana has trouble in forgetting what happened long ago, when he left without saying goodbye to go to Paris.

Jacinto, a former bullfighter who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding he, as agreed a few days before, he should go to a bullfight to be held that evening at Las Ventas. The letter infuriates Jacinto who thinks this is a joke, since he retired from the arena for years, has not signed any contract. When Jacinto is located around the square, picking up cigarette butts that pull the audience, make sure the letter was not a joke, because his name appears on the poster.

Servando, a young Galician who acts as judge in Seville, discovers while snooping old files, a case of suicide a little suspicious. He believes that in reality it is a crime that was hidden and decides to clarify the case, forgetting his girlfriend, who lives in a village in Galicia.

While half of Spain begins to pay for the past crimes committed during the Republican delirium, young and not so young children of the wealthy classes to shape the new regime's military forces are preparing to begin their ascent in the social and economic environment. However, among them there are still genuine saviors of the homeland as the young protagonist of this story, the son of a good family, Catholic and Falangist, who, shocked by the tears and a the suicidal attemps of a girl he was in love with in the past and who was later raped by the republican troops, decides to marry her and give his noble surname to a child born of such outrage.

Rogelia, the orphan of an Asturian miner who died in a work-related accident, marries Máximo, a man as robust as jealous, drunk and violent. But when her husband is jailed, the woman will take advantage to escape with the doctor of the village so as to see the world and perhaps to form a family.