Cantante
Un sereno cuenta a una persona que encuentra en un café algunas de sus experiencias: la historia de un poeta al que da cobijo, la de una monja que se quita los hábitos para buscar un medicamento en el mercado negro, y la suya propia como testigo de un atraco y como enamorado.
Herself - Singer
Left alone after her mother runs off with another man and her father kills himself, Elena attempts to make a new life for herself in a new city. Believing he's a friend, Elena goes to dinner with "Pretty Boy" Lucio, but he drugs her champagne and sells her to Rosaura, who runs a brothel out of her nightclub. Elena becomes a sensation as a dancer, but all the while she nurtures plans of revenge against those who have conspired against her.
Singer at cabaret
The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.
