El relicario

In Andalucía, Joselito, the only son of a poor widowed mother decides, against his mother's wishes, to seek a career as a bullfighter. Don José Romero, an old retired bullfighter coaches Joselito and soon he has his first big triumph. However, when he returns home with his first earnings, Joselito discovers that she his mother has become blind and is in need of a difficult and expensive operation. Joselito, with the help of Lolita his childhood sweetheart, rededicates himself to his career in order to pay for the operation. After a major victory in the bullring, he is booked for a tour of the Americas. Although his mother and Lolita are initially against his going, he leaves with a locket blessed by them and the local priest. In the Americas, Joselito becomes very famous, but he returns to Spain to arrange for the successful operation to restore his mother's sight, and to ask Lolita to marry him. Although both women insist that as he now is rich, he should abandon his dangerous profession, Joselito fights on to ever greater acclaim. One day, while appearing in Seville, he falls into the clutches of the passionate dancer, Corinta. Manuel Fernández, a rich young gambler is also interested in Corinta and convnces her that Joselito is having an affair with another woman and she refuses to see him again. Fernández contrives to attend one of Joselito's bullfights in the company of Corinta and causes him to become jealous and distracted. Joselito is thrown and attacked by the bull and badly injured. Miraculously, Joselito survives but loses the use of his his right leg and is confined to a wheelchair. Lolita and Joselito marry and one day, when Lolita faints, Joselito suddenly finds that he can leave the chair to assist her. He then begins to plan a return to the bullring, but when Lolita and his mother tell him that he will soon be a father, he gladly abandons that plan and dedicates himself to becoming a good father.