College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.
A poor man becomes a modern Robin Hood, robbing the rich to give to the poor.
