The finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a shoeshine from Seville, a clerk from Salamanca, a bullfighter from Cuenca and a newspapers seller from Paris.
In Madrid during the fifties' the calm life from some neighbors will be changed since the arrival of Antonio, a man without scruples who lives running the risk.
Manolo, a cheerful and kind traffic policeman is happy at the birth of his first child, after twenty years of marriage. His happiness contrasts with the restlessness of Paloma, a girl who they have adopted, who fears losing the love that until now she has enjoyed
A Catholic priest lives in a communist country where all religious are being killed. When trying to escape is stopped by a commissioner who had been a fellow student.
In the biography of John of Austria the Spanish hero of Flanders, brother of Philip II, as an argument, the tape is a praise of Spain Emperor Charles V and the values of Franco.
Alberto wants to conquer the artist Laura Céspedes and invites her to a student party at the Faculty of Medicine. After being rejected, he decides to go to Africa.
A serene mind a person is in a coffee some of their experiences: the story of a poet who gives shelter, a nun who takes off to find a drug habits in the black market, and his own witness of a robbery and as a lover.
