An executive who depends on his wife's fortune has a great weakness for women. One day, his chauffeur discovers the flat where he has his mistress, a painter who has him totally idealized as reflected in her paintings. But this straight man ends up, by circumstances of life, paired with a homosexual.

Don Diego goes to war and his son Don Gonzalo is, in his absence, the new lord of the region. The milling Elvira, one of the mistresses of Don Diego, has a beautiful daughter, Elena, who has the desire of Don Gonzalo. But Elena is also the daughter of Don Diego and to separate the love of his brother, they marry her to Rodrigo, the pastor. This will be the beginning of the tragedy.

Drama based on the true life of a group of middle class and members of the Communist Party of Spain, who were involved in clandestine political activities during the sixties.