Galicia, 1880. Don Julián, a priest who has been sent as administrator of the Marquis' estate, arrives at the Pazos de Ulloa, a remote and wild place. Don Pedro, Marquis of Ulloa, an impoverished and corrupt feudal lord, is impeded from marrying Nucha, a young lady from the city, his cousin, for whom the hostile and cruel environment of the pazos will constitute a hellish nightmare. Sabel, with whom the Marquis has had a bastard son, is the opposite figure to the fragile Nucha.
Los pazos de Ulloa was chosen television series of the year by the Valladolid International Film Festival in 1986. The four episodes were screened in their film version during the thirty-first edition of the festival.[3]