A view of the end-of-the-century Mexican family. A father who comes back home after a long absence, but who would rather be somewhere else. A daughter suffering from a trapped pain. A son full of guilt and recriminations. A little kid who soaks up all the tension in the house, like a sponge, and a self-effacing mother who would like to go away and leave everything behind.
Diógenes, el patrullero 777, es constantemente reprendido por su jefe, el mayor Malagón, porque acostumbra a resolver con métodos muy personales los casos que se le plantean como vigilante de la ciudad de México. Diógenes, miembro del coche patrulla 2101, lo mismo soluciona un problema conyugal que da una serenata a la novia de un transeúnte o evita, con riesgo de su vida, que un muchacho desesperado se arroje a la calle desde un 7.º piso.
Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.
Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.
Emiliano Zapata era un campesino que entendía los ideales de la clase trabajadora. Se convirtió en una figura decorativa del levantamiento revolucionario en México.
