Enrico di Ventimiglia, the Son of the Red Corsair, travels through the Spanish conquests of Central America in search of the stepsister he has never met.

A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become suspicious. He gets rid of the bodies by taking them to a slaughter house.

Joselito is a naughty boy that sings like the nightingales. He lives in a little town near Sevilla. He has a great success due to his magnificent voice and then he can practice charity with a girl from his town.

Mercedes is a very simple girl from Valladolid who marries a plenipotentiary minister. They are in America with the mission to seize some oil concessions. Patricio is forced to seduce the wife of a Chancellor as Mercedes, casually gets more information of the diplomat.

In the empty house of his family, Ramon, a poet, remembers the last day of the life of his master: the last time he went out with his friend don Latino de Hispalis, his talk with a minister and his dinner with Ruben Dario.

A man of a certain social position falls in jail and request protection to a pickpocket and con man during his stay. On his release he promises to help his friend what then creates many problems.