Sigifredo Salas

David, an engineer hired to build an industrial facility, arrives at a traditional hacienda on the Peruvian coast. He travels with Ramón, a scatterbrained assistant. The hacienda belongs to the Herrera family. Among its residents are Doña Rosario, the founder's widow, and her daughter, Marta. The foreman is courting Marta. She is carefree and vain, which leads her to mock David's reserved and fastidious nature. But little by little, Marta finds herself drawn to him. The foreman frowns upon the romance, and his jealousy drives him to seek ways to discredit David.

The plot draws inspiration from crime films of the early 1930s, showing scenes of chases and shootouts between smugglers and police in Callao.

Anatasio Cordero arrives unexpectedly in a confined physical environment: the home of a Lima bourgeois family member, which he is entrusted with guarding. The protagonist's disorientation and unease with the mansion's comfort give rise to a series of situations.

On a hacienda on the northern coast of Peru, cotton is harvested and celebrated with lively pachamancas. Miguel, the foreman, is in love with Isabel, a young peasant woman. The hacienda is run by Don Francisco, a kind and understanding landowner who supports Miguel's work, but also that of Andrés, the administrator. Andrés is also courting Isabel. One day, Andrés goes to Isabel's room and tries to force himself on her. At that moment, Miguel arrives. They get into a fight, which Miguel wins. Furious, Andrés plots to get rid of his rival. In collaboration with an accomplice, he steals money from the landowner that Miguel had been entrusted to take to the train station for transport to another location. Miguel is blamed for the theft. However, those responsible fail to notice that two hacienda employees witnessed the crime. Their testimony allows the plot to be uncovered and the foreman's name to be cleared.

The circus arrives in a small town on the coast of Peru. It is managed by the unscrupulous Orsini, who is facing financial problems. Orsini plans with Diana, the tightrope walker, to deceive a wealthy personage of the town. They choose Alberto who attends the show accompanied by his mother, his wife and his little daughter.

In the Neumann shirt factory, the female workers cut, sew, and sing. A bell marks the end of the workday. Two workers go out into the street, where their partners await them. One of the couples is about to get married. The other spends her time arguing, as the enamored man has the irresistible tendency to look at the girls who walk by. The couple goes to see what will be their marital home. They tour it with excitement, making plans about the decoration and furniture for this or that room. Soon after, the couple, now married, gazes at their son asleep in the room they chose for him. On their fifth wedding anniversary, the couple invites their old friends to dinner. At the gathering, the husband feels unwell. They are suffering from headaches caused by a hereditary tumor. Enrique, the husband, is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. His wife and son are with him. The medical prognosis is discouraging

In a wealthy bourgeois home live Doña Trinidad, her children Carlos, Pedro, and Graciela, and three grandchildren. The elderly woman is accustomed to ruling the lives of her family, but also to overlooking their faults. She loves her granddaughter Inés, who is an orphan. She must listen to the complaints and worries of her grandson Carlos, who is a businessman in crisis. Her grandson Raúl, a medical student, is in love with a young woman who doesn't notice him and prefers other companions. His disappointments lead him to seek compensation in morphine injections. The grandson Pedro, who was fired from his job, receives a lottery ticket as payment for a debt, which wins a prize of fifty thousand soles. In turn, another of Doña Trinidad's luxuries, Enrique, comes to his mother's house to lament his weakness of character, which causes him marital problems.

After winning the lottery, a man from one of the poor districts moves to a rich area, but nostalgia and the problems he encounters make him return home.