خلاصه داستان : نسخه سینمایی رمان پرفروش خوزه لئون سانچز، داستان 20 سال حبس این نویسنده در جزیره ای که وحشیگری بر آن حکم فرما بود.

Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an innocent husband and wife become the victims of his selfish rule. Once the evil man's deeds reach the authorities on the mainland, however, he sinks further into madness and declares "his" island its own republic.

خلاصه داستان : داستان مردی که به دزدی روی می آورد و در صورت افشا شدن هویتش همگان از وی روی گردان می شوند ولی فقط کشیش محلی به کمک او می شتابد.

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.