Don Sabino, a priest from the provinces who lives with his niece, Monica. Don Sabino is an arcane priest but his character changes radically when he is with Lucila, a girl whom he and Monica have raised since she was just a baby, when they found her abandoned at the door of their house. Don Sabino is a very helpful priest with his parishioners and life goes on without great upheavals until one day Tomasón appears, fleeing from justice after having committed a murder.

First film adaptation of the play by Enrique Pérez Escrich. Angela's brother is the most important bandit in Salamanca and is killed by Angela's husband. She does not say that he is her brother, and her husband believes that he was her lover, so the child she is waiting for is abandoned in the house of the village priest.

Chief Don Fernando seduces his son's fiancee and forces her to marry.