A greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.

A beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her her father's land caused his death years earlier.

A short period in the life of a soon-to-become-nun named Viridiana, during and after she visits for a few days her late aunt's widower husband, Don Jorge.