Leonor works in a brothel called El Paraiso, in a Caribbean environment. Juan, a man in love with Leonor, has escaped from prison. Both Leonor and John want a new life, but they are hampered by the shadow of their past.

A traveling gravedigger during an (unspecified) war adopts a orphan he finds alone in the desert. After the war with the orphan grown and business slow, the orphan begins to generate ...