Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Since Juan Gallardo was a child wishes to be a bullfighter and he achieves to be come a recognizable figure. He marries Carmen, his childhood friend, but he fall s in love with the widow of a diplomat, a sophisticated woman of the world with whom he starts a relationship that will end up destroying him. While he is recovering Juan receives a visit from his great admirer the bandit "Plumitas" who makes him see the parallelism be tween their life experiences.