 When Juan and Sita s mother dies,the two children find themselves alone, forsaken in Madrid. Their father, who lived alone in Rome, calls them back there but once they arrive in his home, Mr. Roman s secretary receives them coolly. They run away and it is the beginning of a series of adventures involving a dying gangster, a good priest, a young Bohemian, a young lady, a bunch of other bandits, their granny and, at long last, their repentant father...