After the Second World War, the United Nations has declared the blockade of Franco's Spain. In this historical context, for a time little known, lies the story of the widow of a Spanish army captain.

A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law.

One man becomes each day more and more fat. The exercise does not help him. Finally he goes to the doctor that finds out his problem: he is pregnant.

Don Rodrigo goes to the bank and when he is going to take his money there is a robbery. Then the bank refuses to give him his money back (257 pesetas, a small amount of money) with the argument that the money was robbed to him, not to the bank. He will fight against the bank till the last consequences.

Andrés, who lives with his grandmother in a decadent mansion, decides to become a dog in order to overcome his moral prejudices so that he can commit a horrible act.

The classic good-looking girl from village, comes to the capital willing to make the world hers. Her idea is to succeed in the advertising world as a girl-ad

The lieutenant Miguel Aguirre's dream is to become a military pilot, but a dispute with a superior is about to make him abandon his studies, had it not been for the intervention of his mother and his girlfriend, Luisa. Miguel's first destination is Granada Air Base. There he meets an attractive young woman, Patricia, whom he takes for an American tourist.