Roberto Parra

Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.

In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. However private trucker Pal can't afford to strike, so he's beaten up and his truck burned. In the headlines he's described as strike-breaker. This is only part of an intrigue which shall get him to murder B.

1647, Santiago, Chile. Don Henrico banishes his daughter, Josephe, to a convent when he learns she loves Jeronimo, a mestizo who's a teacher in the household. The lovers meet in secret, a child is born, the pair are condemned to die, and prelates scheme to seize Don Henrico's fortune. A moment before Josephe's public execution, an earthquake devastates Santiago. Josephe finds her baby and flees the rubble; Jeronimo survives, escapes, and finds her. The reunion brings joy and rebirth. He wants to build a Utopian community, without priests. She believes they can reenter Santiago society, forgiven. Class, race, and religion dictate a world order: is there a place for these lovers?

During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old Republican exile, returns to his home in the Castilian village of Trescabañas and befriends Aurora, a young and very attractive teacher, with whom Juan, one of her teenage students, falls in love.

프랑스령 기아나로 향하던 죄수 수송선에서 만난 빠삐용(스티브 맥퀸)과 드가(더스틴 호프만). 빠삐용은 무죄지만 살인죄로, 드가는 위조 지폐범으로 잡혀 와 죄수들이 겪는 끔찍한 일들을 겪게 된다. 시간이 지나며 빠삐용과 드가 사이에는 짙은 우정이 오간다. 빠삐용은 자신을 범인으로 몰아붙인 검사에 대한 복수를 위해, 드가는 아내에게 당한 배신 때문에 탈주를 하기로 한다. 그러나 첫번째 탈주에서 이들은 실패하여 독방에서 2년을 보내게 되고, 빠삐용은 다시 탈주를 시도하여 겨우 콜롬비아에 도착하여 지내지만 수도원의 원장에게 속아 다시 세인트 조셉프의 독방에서 5년을 보내게 된다. 드가의 우정만이 빠삐용에게 용기를 주는데...