A sterile woman concocts a plan to have a baby by manipulating her handsome lover to seduce and impregnate a naive and lonely girl.
Matea is an orphan who assists the priest, Father Feliciano, in his parish. The village doctor tries to seduce her, but fails and proceeds to defame her into believing that Matea maintains relations with the priest.
When a boatswain was left on a poor island being dominated by opression and hunger, he discovers that the reason for the misery is not nature but a net of bloody smugglers.
A concerned Mexican boy shoots his mom and her lover while having sex, after which he is tormented by erotic nightmares. And then he becomes a horse and bull driver.
In colonial Mexico, a wealthy plantation owner forces his slaves to taste some-times poisonous mushrooms, which are used in a family recipe and served at lavish parties.