Lonso, a young Galician, has to flee his village because he has accidentally killed Count Raña's youngest son. To save himself, he leaves for Seville to embark towards the New World. He has a letter of recommendation for Juan de Sanabria, the Provantado del Río de la Plata, who prepares an expedition to Asunción. Dona Mencía de Calderón, the woman of the Advanced, brings together eighty young people from hidalgas families without resources to travel with her and her two daughters to Asunción. There they will marry the Spaniards who have settled in the city. Ana is one of the young people who agree to travel with Mencía. As she knows how to read and write she becomes the secretary of the Advance. Alonso arrives in Seville accompanied by Pelayo, a young picaro and without family, whom she has met on the way. The two have become friends and together survive as they can in the city waiting for the arrival of the Advance In the port, Alonso meets Ana and is struck with her. The young woman, who has an overwhelming imagination, has fallen in love with the handsome Captain Salazar, the veteran navigator and conqueror who will guide the ships to the new lands. The expedition departs to the New World on three ships. Salazar captains one of them, the ship San Miguel, in which she goes to Mencia with the maidens. During the voyage, a great storm breaks out from the other two ships to San Miguel and leaves the nao mistrecha and drifting. The crew of the ship will have to overcome several obstacles in its journey to reach the end of the expedition. (Wikipedia)