Dalagang Bukid is a love story about a young flower vendor, Angelita (Atang de la Rama), who is betrothed by her parents

to a rich, old man, Don Silvestre, but she loves Cipriano, a law student. The play consists of three acts and is filled with music (18 songs), which made it suitable for a screen adaptation with an accompanying orchestra. The film showed many of the woes plaguing the Filipino society, as well as issues relevant for the society of the time: gambling, Americanisation, infidelity, poverty, the power of money versus the power of love, parents view on marriage, and corrupt government officials. The home of Angelita, the pretty Philippine families, although it Angelita, the flower girl of the with the sincere and spontaneous heroine, is a certain picture of many somewhat exaggerates the negative tones. Cabaret, the Dalagang Bukid, loves Cipriano passion of her twenties.

Cipriano is a Law student who loves her back equally. The parents of Angelita, without much financial resources, limited in their moral honesty because of the gambling demon, dont see with good eyes the love of the happy couple, where tenderness and affection are abundant but money the great dominating ingredient, is missing. This is why Mrs Biang is inclined into accepting the propositions from Don Silvestre, an old loan shark, rich in aches and gold, who still has a young heart and allows himself to visit the cabarets and buy flowers from the pretty florists [ladies] such as Angelita; this doesnt prevent him from lending money with a high interest, low mortgage, and still give away some money to Angelitas parents, who see in Don Silvestre the source who will let them continue without working, the father spending time in his favourite sport at the chicken fighting games and her, the mother gambling. Meanwhile, Angelita and her brothers, all younger and working as shoe shiners at the threshold of the Church of the Holy Cross, maintain the expenses of the house with their honest and hard work. Don Silvestre, who is a pro in these issues, takes over the will of Angelitas parents and since he was able to have Angelita win a beauty contest in La Vanguardia thanks to the power of gold, he requests the parents to have the florist as his wife. They accept and a date is fixed for the wedding, which is the next day of the formal crowning of Angelita as the Beauty Queen. But Cipriano, who just finished his studies brilliantly after many long nights of studying, goes to the home of his beloved in the moment that she is going to get in Don Silvestres car to be taken to the Crowning ceremony. Already secretly in agreement from the day before, the love birds go in the same car of the old loan shark towards a church where they are wed in holy matrimony by a generous minister of God: having finished the ceremony they go to the Crowning event where the whole world learns about their union. Don Silvestre faints and this is how the movie finishes.