Córdoba, Spain. Lord Killarney, representative of the British Museum, acquires an Arabic incunabulum at an auction; but he is murdered and the book disappears. All suspicions fall on El Lince, an antique dealer with a shady background, who asks his nephew to warn Curro Jiménez.

Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.

A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.