Doña Zenaida
Nicolasa sells tacos near a movie studio and her popularity threatens the restaurant's own studies. She drops the food when seeing actor Armando performing and the director expels her out.
Nana de Monchito
After accidentally hitting a boy with her car, a young woman pretends to be a nurse in order secretly help him to recover.
Doña Rosa
A group of young people makes a plan to escape from the problems of their neighborhood.
Madre de Andrés (uncredited)
Young woman's parents don't supervise her activities closely enough; she ends up going to a beatnik nightclub and dancing the twist and getting raped.
Nana (as Lola Tinoco)
All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...
Sra. de López
Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.
Family in crisis: the American Dream collapses for four members of a Mexican family in Texas, all at the same time.
Irene
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.
Renee
Rich woman manouevres in secret to restore her dead father's good reputation.
Invitada a fiesta
Homeless girl placed in a court-appointed foster home under the care of a social worker.
Prostitution and drug-smuggling in Mexico City and Cd. Juarez.
Directora del orfanatorio
Bank employee is tempted to make use of banknotes scheduled for destruction.
(as Lolita Tinoco)
A hacienda seem to be haunted by La Llondra, the crying woman.
Widower wants to remarry, but his adult children are slow to warm to his new wife. One daughter in particular tries very hard to discredit her in his eyes.