The story of a religious icon created by an artist and used by the Spaniards as a weapon of conquest: At the end of XVI century, as the Spaniards conquistadores strive the subdue the New World, they confront a problem of  the evangelization of the Indians. People of deep religious beliefs, the Indians refuse to accept Christianity. The Spaniards conjure the Inquisition and the Indians revolt. In order to prevent a massacre, Frail Pedro Francisco de Cañas orders an local painter to create the Virgin of Guadalupe, an icon meant to bring closer the two populations. Frail Pedro, Ortiz and the model that posed for the icon are soon found assassinated...