The spirit of Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz becomes known through a student who goes to Mexico to finish her thesis, confronting a century saturated with marvelous inventions but also plagued with injustices.
A woman who has been raped (Alicia Neira) sets out to rebuild her life with another man (Luis Aguilar), but the bandit who assaulted her (Enrique Zambrano) stands in her way.