Two bumpkins in the big city fight over the same girl, until they realize that she's playing them against each other.
Gloria encounters Francisco, a man whose social veneer betrays a truer self burrowed underneath.
With the purpose of using barbasco roots in the production of cortisone, a pharmaceutical company sends a scientist to investigate the possibilities of exploitation in Veracruz, but the man gets lost in the jungle and lives a strange romantic adventure in a remote location called Paradise.
