A married man with a son who has a passion for everything beautiful and pure has a weakness: young girls under twenty when he suspects they are virgins. So he falls in love, marries them and leaves them after the wedding night.
Rich Spanish landowner Alvaro is torn between his wife Elvira and two other women in his life. He's also worried about the fact that both his father and grandfather were murdered by Spanish revolutionaries in the house he's inherited.
The former pupils of the school "Ateneo" meet several years later to honor the retirement of the head master, Mrs. María. The house where everyone meets, still evokes ancient memories from ...