The priest of Villablanca is determined to build a housing for the poor. However, do not have enough money and will have to earn singing in festivals. They are all obstacles to get what you want, but his faith makes him see the problems as easy to overcome.

Malena and José are two gipsy lovers whose love is impossible: their respective families became enemies a hundred years ago...

While the city of Cadiz helds the carnival festivities, in the solitary deck of a boat a nice old man contemplates excited the party. For many years he has visited his hometown and now he fears to face the absence of his loved ones. He remembers the welcome extended to him the last time he returned from the campaign in Cuba, his youth and migration.

Manuel, a young man of eighteen, arrives in Madrid with the illusion of being a bullfighter. On arrival he meets Juan a ruined singer in his fifties who, along with his friend Lola, will help the boy to get a chance to bullfight in a probe at the estate of a famous businessman.

An orphan child arrives at a house courtyard where the neighbours must organise a flamenco show to avoid the house from being sold by its owner...