The bandit El Tempranillo falls in love with a gypsy and the daughter of the Mayor of Seville.

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.

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.