Seven year old Marcos' only illusion is to have his First Communion in a white suit.

Military service recruit Miguel Canete (José Luis Ozores) Roncalejo neighbor, provides a serious family conflict. Miguel has a brother, Pipo (Miguelito Gil), aged six, who lives with him and is not willing to leave his side. Back in Madrid, at the destination of Four Winds, Miguel becomes his good faith and simplicity, the target of an endless series of hazing, always related to the sergeant Palomares (Manolo Moran), instructor of recruits. The tribulations of the recruits are complicated when it appears, in full command, Pipo, who was impossible to stay in the base has to seek other accommodations as.

At school, Luca is falsely accused of a prank and wishes he had a father who would defend him in front of the headmaster. His father is dead, but he meets a sea captain who is willing to pretend to be his parent. Then Captain Andrea falls in love with Luca's mother, textile mill worker Maria. Before things go right, Andrea needs to deal with an ex-girlfriend and a smuggling plot.

Berta is a German who comes to a small fishing village to marry Lorenzo, owner of an island and that only known her through his letters. The early days of their marriage are a constant disappointment, especially when it finds that her husband has no resemblance to the author of the letters. He lives embittered by an old story and is hated by all.