A young girl falls off a cliff in the mountains of South America and is miraculously saved from certain death by the Virgin Mary. A shrine is erected at the site and the city of wonders grows up around it – a prospering city attracting believers from all around.  But its wealth also attracts a number of dubious characters, such as The Gaucho – feared by men and desired by women…

Apart from trading wild animals, Tyger Haynes only cares for the wellbeing of his beloved daughter Toyo.  He notices with unease that she has fallen in love with bobby, his best client’s son. It is only when Bobby rescues her from a belligerent tiger that the father consents in her relationship. But none of them foresees the appearance of the seductive and mysterious Madame de Sylva.