Set during the second world war, the sentimental education of a sensual adolescent girl, growing out of her childhood in a small, impoverished village in Southern Italy.
J.R. has been shot in his sensitive parts. After spending a season in the hospital, and anxious for revenge, he returns to find the culprit. He is accompanied by a bodyguard that prevents the presence of women who could approach him, thus delaying his recovery.
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, “Mio Cid”, is in love with Jimena, but the Count of Oviedo, his father, challenges him to a duel and is killed. He before him curses Rodrigo, that if he marries Jimena, he will lose his manly faculties. And, in fact, when he gets married, Rodrigo becomes effeminate.