The film is based on an old Argentine legend about an Aztec girl who is raped and murdered by vandals and dumped in a river. A flower blossoms at the place in which she was killed and misfortune falls upon the culprits.
A millionaire woman marries her young butler in articulo mortis and he wastes the whole fortune but she ends up recovering. The marriage will experience certain vicissitudes until they reach their dance of fortune.