The Count of Maravillas receives an unusual proposal from a masked woman: to kidnap the valido of King Carlos IV.

Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his wife and son, confronts a local loan shark and is imprisoned as a result.

Isabel and Gonzalo, a marriage of high society, see how their happiness is endangered due to the frequent love affairs of the husband, that will eventually lead them to interact with a pair of cynical thieves dedicated to blackmail Isabel and to defraud Gonzalo in his business