In Madrid during the fifties' the calm life from some neighbors will be changed since the arrival of Antonio, a man without scruples who lives running the risk.

The wealthy father of a young girl who has a relationship with a boy who has just won a waltzing contest employs him in a factory in order to make him a profitable man.

As every year, the happy marriage of Luis and Isabel wakes up ready to celebrate her onomastics her and that of her daughter, unaware that the day reserves a tragic twist in the destiny of their lives, because the girl dies in a fatal accident. The impression is so strong that Isabel becomes mad until the point of being confined in a sanatorium. And looking for her health, the doctor forbids Luis to see his wife. He can only get news from her via Emilia, the young nurse who cares for Isabel.

The finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a shoeshine from Seville, a clerk from Salamanca, a bullfighter from Cuenca and a newspapers seller from Paris.

Anselmo is a teacher who, for his love to hypnotize people is fired from his job. When going through these bad times, he receives an inheritance from America and travels there to collect it. Although not much money, at least in America he gets an employment as hypnotist and ends having a great success. As a millionaire, he returns to his village to get married but things have changed.

Father Luis Lastra is a young priest who does his job in the village of Peñascosa. There he meets Marta, a beautiful parishioner very interested in religious matters, so much that she convinces the priest to accompany her to the convent to become a cloistered nun. Along the way, they have to stop at an inn for the night and that's where Father Luis will test his faith.

Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed.

After the death of her father, María returns to her hometown with Maria, her mother. Lupo and Beto fall in love with her, two brothers whose family is at odds with hers. While Beto tries to rape her, Lupo becomes the girl's protector.

In a village in the mountains of Urbión, brothers John and Martin, driven by greed and abetted by Candelas, Martin's wife, kill his father and sink the body in the Black Lagoon. His wife and one daughter of the victim does not know anything. In the village would get missing. However, from now weigh a curse on the land for which they have committed the crime, predicting each year misfortunes and bad harvests.