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.
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.
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.
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.