The boatman Curro Jiménez, due to the harassment of some wealthy people who take away his work and beat him up, assumes revenge by killing four men going underground.

The Countess of Palma goes to a convent in search of her niece Mercedes, but finds out that the young woman went to the mountains with the bandits. Don Mariano, usurer of Carmona, is going to donate an image of 'La Dolorosa' to the town church. The image is full of gold inside.

A dying man confesses to the priest the possession of half of a map that indicates the place of a shipment of gold. Many want to get hold of him

Curro Jiménez, nostalgic, decides to go see his old mother. There he meets a young woman who helps the old woman, apparently selflessly. Actually, this is a spy sent there by an enemy of the bandit.

A man protected by a high office is forced to try to capture Curro Jiménez. For this he seeks, coercing, the collaboration of Zacarías Mendoza, a former retired bandit.

A chief and his son abuse the people of a town by making them work for a pittance. Curro Jiménez intervenes and revenge is prepared.

A landowner, an old friend of Curro's, writes to him asking for help. When Curro arrives at the farmhouse where they had met, he finds that he has died and his young widow is harassed by mysterious enemies. The bandit decides to discover the murderers, at the risk of his own life, out of loyalty to his friend.