 Narciso, Rufino's father and his partner in the neighbourhoods café, is a chronic drunkard and a guitar virtuoso.Rosa, a merry widow that sells flowers, is in turn courted by Narciso and by the unpleasant and arrogant Evaristo, the grocer, father to envious and spoiled Celeste.The rivalry between Narciso and Evaristo reaches its height in a dance night at the courtyard that ends in a veritable camp battle.