Flora Tristán flees to Peru for her inheritance, but her uncle leaves her penniless by altering the will. Returning to France, she becomes a writer and advocate for workers' and women's rights. Despite romantic entanglements, she chooses to focus on her work, leaving behind her love life.

Roque is a young archaeology student who, through the mysterious carved figures on a gourd, seeks to uncover the macabre death of his family and the curse of his village. Aided by Wallallo Karwincho, a Wanka god reincarnated as an old man, he will confront Don Macario, a man condemned to live without a soul, punished by the mountain spirits.