Following the defeat of Napoleon, many Frenchmen, who fled to the Americas, return to their homeland. Several families from Bordeaux, Nantes and Toulouse remained in Guatemala where they settled near Tegucigalpa. The French migrants rent land from Amalia, the widow of a Spanish knight. Amalia spend her days, with her pets, wandering in her castle and private gardens. Her life suddenly changed when some of her renters were arrested for planning a coup d'état against Spain.