Un grupo de campesinos de Realengo 18 deben enfrentarse a la codicia de una compañía norteamericana que pretende desalojarlos del lugar. Una de las campesinas tendrá que lidiar con el conflicto de ver cómo su hijo se une a la guardia rural que los reprime.

The plot is situated in Cuba during the early '50s, before the cuban revolution. A prostitute gets in love with a boxer to whom she devotes her life. As the boxer progresses in his career, he gets money and women. The prostitute tries everything to keep him meanwhile her tortured soul sinks deeper and deeper.