Llorenç and Ernest are two great lifelong friends. The two decided long ago that they wanted to be actors, but have had uneven careers. While Llorenç has been popular with all of them for a long time and has seen his fame grow (as did his ego) until he became a true diva of the Catalan theater, Ernest has not finished achieving it.

Joan, a sullen old peasant tired of being robbed, decides to join the peasant patrol that watches over the fields. His son Pepe, who has just returned from the city, accompanies him. During the nightly patrol Joan and Pepe come across a thief.

Surrounded by the profund social and political changes that took place in Barcelona between the end of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship and the Second Republic, the eldest son of a bankrupt aristocràtic family falls into a spyral of decadence. At the same time, his younger brother fights to return to the top at any price and without any scruples.