Based on a legend, the author offers us a beautiful story between reality and poetry, in the context of a miracle. Marcelino was abandoned as a newborn at the door of a convent. The community is poor, but the monks raise and educate the child. Everyone loves him and Marcelino lives in paradise.
The monks have told Marcelino to stay out of the attic, but he is too curious, so he goes up there anywhere. He sees that there is a statue in the attic who looks hungry, so steals some wine and bread to feed him. But suddenly the statue is no longer a statue - it is a real man! What will happen to Marcelino? And who is the statue?