Living in a peaceful Mexican fishing town with her husband, Pepe (Pedro Armendariz), and her son, Magdalena (Maria Felix) spends her days focused on the realities of the present. But when handsome American Jim Gatsby (Jack Palance) -- a man who was once her lover -- strolls back into her life, it changes her future forever. After all, Jim could be her son's real father. Carlos Montalban co-stars in this sentimental drama.