Aurelia is a Mancha's peasant who can barely keep up her husband's estate while he's in prison for murder. When Juan enters her service as a farmhand, the land begins to regain its former glory--and the boy feels increasingly attracted to his mistress. Although nobody in the village wants to work in the lands of "the damned"--Until one day José regains freedom and returns home, and a fierce rivalry begins between the two men as they vie for Aurelia's heart.