It’s a full moon. The vigilante known as Zorro gallops into town with Capitán Monasterio’s men in hot pursuit. Zorro leaps from his horse, shoos it away and seeks refuge in the San Carlos church. He enters to find a group of women in nocturnal adoration. His appearance causing a stir, he calls for quiet and ascends the belltower. But his pursuers have seen him enter the church. They go in, throw the women out and, when the Franciscan priest don Antonio refuses to reveal Zorro’s whereabouts, they decide to set fire to the building. Zorro is trapped. His only choice is to hand himself over or die. And so, from the top of the belltower, he throws himself into the flames.