Carmen del Valle

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.

Delivery boy for a liquor store hires on as new gun in a drug cartel.... but he's also on the police force's payroll..

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

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.

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.

Anselmo and Guadalupe are rivals because theyvgrew up in different families.

In the middle of a war, a deserter arrives in a village where only five people live.

Roving gambler teams up with a small-town priest to break the bank at a local casino that's sucking the townspeople dry.