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.

Curro Jiménez and his cronies get into an affair to get a fortune in gold coins.

A French detachment arrives at an inn carrying a shipment of gold. Different bands plan to seize the gold, reaching unsuspected situations for everyone.

The Marchioness of a town in Andalusia collect abusive taxes on people with the complicity of a French general. A potter and painter faces them risking his life.

The son of a wealthy landowner is kidnapped. The father receives a rescue request signed by Curro Jiménez. Curro appears before the mayor, denying that he was the author of the kidnapping.

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.

Antonio Navajo is the chief of smugglers. A traitor tries to implicate him in the murder of two men from Curro Jiménez.

Curro Jiménez, Pedro Higueras and Víctor Areco, leaders of three groups of bandits from the Andalusian mountains, interview each other, at the request of the second. The meeting is held on neutral ground and each attends with three of his gang.

The usurer Anselmo García has kicked the Countess of Alloro out of his farmhouse, and refuses to give him money for his jewelry, so the Countess offers his daughter to marry him.

Curro Jimenez receives a letter informing him that a former member of his gang is in serious danger. Curro sets out on the journey remembering how he met his friend and the struggles they had against the French.

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

The latest attacks by bandits on the stagecoaches transporting French travelers, make the invading army suspect that there is a spy among the people driving them. The French set a trap and everyone involved falls into it.