Aquiles Nazoa

A naive but humane student leaves his town with the ambition to become a doctor, promising to return to help his people, who see him as a local hero.

A young woman has her plans to catch a doctor reluctant to marry.

The captain of a small vessel, regularly sailing between his home island of Margarita Island in the Caribbean and the Venezuelan mainland, has two separate and very different relationships. At home, he is happily married, having named his boat Isabel after his wife. Yet on his visits to the port of La Guaira, he has a passionate affair with Esperanza, a woman working in a seedy cabaret who tries to retain him with hexes and spells.