About
Baltasar a young man in his twenties is sent by his father to live with his aunt Dolores an elderly widow and childless widow on the Las Pataguas farm There he meets his neighbors the Araneda family owners of the El Pantano farm and parents of the beautiful Humilde with whom Balthazar falls in love But the girl is bewitched by Saúl Araneda her seductive cousin whom the locals consider dangerously jealous