María Luján is a famous couplet singer in decline who remembers her intense life while speaking with Juan Contreras, an old admirer and the first businessman who believed in her. She reviews her beginnings as a showgirl, her triumph in Spain, Paris, and Latin America in the 1920s, the different men in her life, her dalliances in French gambling halls, etc ... And, finally, her return to Spain, already ill, after the Second World War to work at El Molino, a cabaret venue in Barcelona.