The story begins in 1900 with the imminent marriage between Orosia Garcés de Abarca and Eloy Sancho de Embún. But their happiness will be truncated when the future husband dies stabbed as a result of the rivalries of the night serenaders before the balcony of the bride. The neighbors suspect the quarrelsome Venancio; but, above all, of an old suitor: Joselón de Urríes.