Set in the future, the story follows a nurse who tries to bring her own style of relief to people condemned to die. Her identity is a mystery and she may not be quite what she seems.

A young woman who wants to marry an earl's son wants to refine the habits of their parents, people from a village that has been enriched in the overnight by selling their land.

Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.

Like every night, Manuel remembers the old days of glory, when after the war he was a famous bullfighter. He and his friend Juan were the fashionable couple. Now Juan is a prominent businessman in bullfighting. But Manuel's feelings toward him have changed radically: an inexplicable hated seizes him when someone mentions his name. It has been more than twenty years since that afternoon, when Manuel was bullfighting and fell to the ground.

Pedro Montero, left Spain when he was young, he become famouse in Brazil and Italy as a boxer. When he comes back to Spain , he enters the body of Marines and continues with his career. On the eve of winning the European Championship, the guardians of his rival send him a dangerous woman, an old friend who he had in Rome, to hinder his physical preparation.

Antonio has two wishes he would like to see come true--having friends and seeing the sea. The friendship part was hard for him because of the bullying, but he managed and with their help he was also able to fulfill his second wish.