Karen Harrison is a spoiled, rich, American predator who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the "alternativa" of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter.

Passing through a border town, a man is caught up in a Mexican's murder of a member of the town's most powerful family.

A man and his partner arrive at a small Western town to kill its most powerful man because the former blames him for his wife's death.