The White Rose

A conflict as old as man is presented as sternly and profoundly as a Greek tragedy: the impersonal might of Money against the eternal efficiency of Mother Earth. Gold, no matter how much, can never equal the value of land which perennially provides man with the essentials of life. This is the philosophy of the Totonaca Indian, DON JACINTO YAÑEZ, the hereditary master of the great Mexican hacienda, La Rosa Blanca, an idyllic agricultural community held in trust by his family for the last fifteen hundred years. When great oil resources are discovered in the area and surrounding haciendas are acquired, the United States oil speculators overseen by the over-consuming and morally corrupt C.C. COLLINS, head of Condor Oil Inc., begin by offering Don Jacinto coined gold worth twenty times the declared value of his property. Don Jacinto refuses to sell the hacienda forcing Collins into a devious scheme to take over Rosa Blanca. Two worlds, two different cultures, will collide.