The alcalde and his troops run off an Indian tribe from the land surrounding Los Angeles, but a young Indian girl named Kinona is left behind. She is rescued by Zorro and taken in by the de la Vegas. Kinona and Felipe fall in love, but the alcalde has other plans for the girl. To make matters worse, Kinona is already betrothed to a warrior named Black Feather, who now sees Felipe as an enemy.

It's Christmas and Don Diego is depressed, less because of his bad cold then dad's sneers that he should at least have been there protesting while Zorro singlehandedly saved innocent villager Friez from flogging by the alcalde. He decides to give the party at Victoria's a miss, and wonders if Zorro's endless crime fighting really matters, since he never gets closer to his true love or gets any credit for his feats as the masked mystery man he created. Then appears magically don Fernando, apparently an angle of fate, who shows Diego how disastrously worse everyone's