Currito, raised in a Seville hospice, ekes out a living while trying to become a bullfighter.

Ricardo, a young law student in his home town of Madrid, is a carefree playboy who loves nightclubs and courting pretty girls. His father hopes to instill a more serious attitude in his son by transferring him to a school in the rural town of Santiago. At Santiago, his father's old friend is to be his guardian. When Ricardo arrives at Santiago he joins a fraternity, and continues his carefree lifestyle while serenading and courting his guardian's daughter, Carmina.

Original adaptation of the novel by its director, Alejandro Pérez Lujín, centered on the university adventures of a young man studying abroad who stays in a boarding house known as The House of Troy.