Min, a hard-boiled proprietress of a waterfront hotel, who has as her sweetheart Bill, a fisherman, brings up Nancy, a girl who was deserted by her own mother in infancy. However the Local authorities are trying to persuade Min that she is not a fit mother and that Nancy should be sent to school.

Un pueblo de la sierra castellana está sojuzgado por la tiranía de un brutal cacique, que impone sus abusos. El bandido Salvador, agazapado en la sierra, supone su principal inquietud.