Curro Jiménez, nostalgic, decides to go see his old mother. There he meets a young woman who helps the old woman, apparently selflessly. Actually, this is a spy sent there by an enemy of the bandit.
A man protected by a high office is forced to try to capture Curro Jiménez. For this he seeks, coercing, the collaboration of Zacarías Mendoza, a former retired bandit.
One of Curro Jiménez's men is murdered at a gypsy party. The bandit is caught when he goes to notify the death to his friend's parents, but manages to escape and take revenge.
The assaults on stagecoaches occur continuously in the province by the bandits. The governor makes a pact with Curro Jiménez to stop them, but there are more bandits around.
A party with dancing and boxing matches is held on Saturdays in a mining company. O'Hara, champion of the mine, usually defeats his opponents. Perico, discovers a very strong young man and arranges a fight, mortgaging his house
Someone tries to assassinate Curro Jiménez but only manages to wound Algarrobo. A lonely woman with whom Curro falls in love has the solution to the enigma.
An English journalist, a correspondent for the London Times, arrives in Andalusia to interview Curro Jiménez to publish his biography. But it is not so easy to find him.
Curro is saved from the gallows by an old friend who later asks for his help in a case of life and death that turns into a dangerous enigma that Curro Jiménez will try to discover.
A man persecuted by justice is pardoned for having captured the real culprit. After two years of absence, he arrives at his house where he finds that his stepbrother has taken over his farm and his legitimate wife.