Based on a true story, two Spanish university students imprisoned for anti-Franco graffiti in 1947 are helped to freedom in France by two North American women.

Amado is a professional executioner about to retire. José Luis, soon to marry his daughter, Carmen, must inherit his father-in-law's unpopular profession in order to keep the house where they are going to live. All goes well until the day the son-in-law faces his first execution. Amadeo assures José Luis that the condemned man will be pardoned at the last minute, so José and his family take a vacation in Mallorca. But the pardon doesn't come.

After a lavish dinner party in a stately mansion, the guests believe themselves unable to leave the premises. As the days pass, the elaborate facades of their social positions collapse and they are forced to live like animals. Finally discovering they are actually free to leave, they go to church to give thanks, where they are again trapped.

It is the 17th century and the king of Spain is a young man, inexperienced in politics and love. Nevertheless, he soon discovers a world of new sensations in the arms of Marfisa, one of the most beautiful courtesans of the court. The news runs from mouth to mouth, filtering through the walls of the palace.

In order to prove he is devoted to God, a 4th century saint stays on the top of a pillar for over six years while he is tempted by the devil in the form of a beautiful woman.

The finding of a lost portfolio with a great amount of money becomes the subject of four comic stories. First the man who finds the money blows it in bar in Seville, then it moves on to the scatterbrained wife of an employee of a French railway station. Third it winds up in Salamanca with a civil employee submissive to the tyranny of his authoritarian and despotic wife. And fourth it becomes the property of a pathetic bullfighter.