明朝天启四年,广元地区连年饥荒。户部侍郎卓继贤奉太子之命运送粮草前往灾区,行至玉龙山时,被明月城城主练霓裳连人带粮一道劫走。卓继贤的儿子、武当首徒卓一航即刻下山救父,由此卷入了太子、魏忠贤和练霓裳的斗争中。卓一航与练霓裳由误会开始,经历一番风波后,彼此吸引,两人进而相恋。然而之后为解练霓裳身上的情毒,卓一航只得假意与其反目,练霓裳误以为他绝情如此,一夜之间青丝尽白。为了恢复白发魔女的头发和容貌,卓一航前往天山寻找练霓裳和传说中的优昙仙花。。The story is very basic| it deals with the adventures of young street-criminals in Madrid who graduate from car-theft to bank-robbery. What's interesting is the way Saura makes us care about these "hijos de nadie", who are kind and decent people 50% of the time, and feel they have no future in regular society. But the movie never sentimentalizes them - they do exactly what you'd expect such people to do.。