Carmen del Valle

El Bola is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates and friendship.

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.

After watching an infomercial about traveling an old woman decides to escape from the retirement home to make her dreams come true.

When her husband abandons her and her son, she ends up as a nightclub singer and gets sick, so the boy travels to the United States because he wants to find his father to ask him to return.

After the deadly conflict between the Perez and the Orozco dynasties, only 3 remain. Eric Orozco, and 2 of the Perez, Gabino and Jesus.

Two families are united by economic interests until one day the rancher Mariano Pérez tires of this union, leading to misunderstandings and a tragic event.

It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.