[5] Julián, Ramón, Juan, el Chato, Paco and Manolo are six Andalusian migrants from the depressed, suburban and shantytown outskirts of Madrid who survive off the product of their assaults, thefts and robberies.

Only one of them, Juan, eventually works as a porter in the Legazpi fruit market, and it is him that the others try to help, in solidarity, to make his dream of being a bullfighter come true.

In the afternoon, in the Plaza de Vista Alegre, the bullfight is held with a disastrous result: between boos and whistles, after several failed attempts, Juan manages to kill the bull.

Los golfos premiered at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival but was not released in Spain until 1962 due to the censorship regime.

"[5] In Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain, Marsha Kinder wrote of Los golfos that "The fact that no fathers appear in the film shows an ideological departure from the Fascist glorification of the patriarchal family and its idealization of the bond between fathers and sons and also speaks to the historical reality of so many Spanish fathers having been killed in the Civil War.