The inhabitants of a town try to expel from the place a young man whose only sin is having been the seventh son of a family.

Aspects of the life of Juan Facundo Quiroga, a caudillo who for many years ruled the province of La Rioja in Argentina and was assassinated in 1835.

In a fort in the middle of the Pampa, their commander Hilario Castro decides to bring women from Buenos Aires to prevent deserting soldiers.

During the second half of the 19th century, a young survivor is saved in the Argentine pampas by a man she ends up marrying.