Based on the tragedy that Mexico City suffered after the 1985 earthquake , praising and thanking the efforts of locals and foreigners in helping to rescue the living and the dead from the rubble.

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.

After indulging in an affair with a man (a friend of the family) she truly loves, a woman returns to her young son and husband for good, and loses contact with the man. Her husband is unaware of the affair. Twenty years later, there is news that the friend has died and left all of his money to the younger son in the family, which leads us to question this younger son's biological origin.

Fiftyish head of household tries to hang onto his fun-loving youth while imposing his most rigid value judgements on his young-adult children.

A man, annoyed by his wife's interference in the family business, travels to Spain, where he becomes involved with another woman.

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.

Portrayal of a family’s attempt to change the spending habit of the indulgent and hedonistic patriarch, Alfredo. The family decides to try to fool him into spending less by telling him that his large fortune is gone.

An old professor in love with one of his students is rejected by her because of his advanced age. He then sells his soul in return for youth and a chance at love but things don't go as he planned.

Antonio, a millionaire, gifts his wife a statue of a naked, kneeling woman for their wedding anniversary.

College-educated emigre has to get macho when he returns home to the Venezuelan outback.

Going out for a drink with the guys after work, a salaryman get in over his head with a gangster's moll and a murder.