Revolution in Spain, around the events of 2 May 1808, when the people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation.

After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true and which one is bastard.

A man returns to Spain after getting rich in America. He falls in love with a woman who works as a servant in his cousin's home. Before marrying her, he finds out that she's had a torrid affair with a priest.

Marianela is a poor girl with a disfigured face who works as Pablo's guide, a blind young man from a wealthy family. Pablo falls in love with Marianela because of her spirit and vitality and imagines her as the most beautiful woman in the world. When Pablo has the chance to recover his sight, Marianela becomes very sad because she is sure that the young man will reject her when he can see her

Don Rodrigo, who lives in America, returns to Spain at the death of his son. Once here he discovers he has two granddaughters, though only one is a fruit of his son's marriage as the other is daughter of his son with a mistress.

Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.

Shows the unfailing love of two women for the same man, one as his mistress, the other as his wife. The lives of these characters intertwine and are determined by the variegated fabric of delicate tradition and established vices shaky politics and intrigue of the society they live in. Based on the major novel (1877) by Benito Perez Galdos.

Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.

A priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.

Literary adaptation: In the late 19th century a society lady takes pride in being a good Christian while she burns books she disapproves of, and arranges to have her daughter's lover whom she also disapproves of, executed.

Novice nun returns to her parent's home to save the family fortune by marrying a creditor.

Marianela is an orphan young girl living in a small village where she guides the blind young son of a rich country man. She is secretly in love with him, knowing that he loves her only because he can't see her ugly face. But one day a famous doctor appears and promises to operate him so he can see. His father is happy to know this way he will be able to marry his rich cousin. Nela gets desperate knowing his luck will turn into her disgrace when he finally sees her face.

Literary adaptation: a Spanish count tries to learn, as a matter of family honor, which of his putative grand daughters resulted from an affair by his daughter in law with a Parisian painter.