A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder.

A muckraking reporter is framed for murder and sent to a particularly brutal prison.

Juan is the naïve son of a once-famous bullfighter who tries to recapture the glory of his family's name. Though he is branded fifth rate, he soon becomes Spain's greatest matador and returns home to marry his childhood sweetheart. But when a beautiful, passionate aristocrat seduces him, Juan succumbs to her temptations, only to see his own happiness and success crumble.