"The film begins: Seville, at the beginning of the century. A gang of scoundrels. The clumsiest, the shortest, the slowest runner, is Juan Belmonte... our hero. His father is a drunkard with many children which he cannot feed. Juan is in love with Consuelo, a beautiful waitress at a refreshment stand, but he does not know how to approach her. It’s everything or nothing for Juan. He chooses everything. Bullfighting is, at this time, the mythical way of escaping a miserable world. But how can he achieve this?"