Doña Refugio works in an office until the bounce and has three children: Fernando who is studying to be a lawyer, doctor and Nacho Edmundo to work in a company as a truck driver gas. Things become difficult within the family and each seek solutions to economic oppression living.
Nelly, mujer de la calle (segment "Las Cucarachas")
Torn between three lovers and bored by her typewriting classes, Carolina (Dillian) writes a passionate love letter to fictional Pablo Garza from Monterrey. The letter is sent by mistake and received by real Pablo Garza's girlfriend. Pablo himself (Infante) flies to Mexico City looking for an explanation. Carolina is rehearsing a musical show for her school dressed as a man. When Pablo meets her, she pretends to be her brother Anibal, a shy and feminine sailor. Pablo likes Anibal and invites "him" to a cabaret. After that, Carolina falls inlove with Pablo but resists to unveil her real self. Meanwhile, Pablo feels himself confused, because young "Anibal" is cute as an angel and has "those blue eyes..."
Woman Dancing with Pedro (uncredited)
Jorge Bueno and Pedro Malo are best friends who consider giving up their womanizing ways when they each fall in love. As fate would have it, Pedro Malo unexpectedly marries Jorge Bueno's girlfriend, and the conflict between the former buddies begins. A year later they find themselves in the same town and confront each other once and for all.
Clienta del salón de belleza (uncredited)
Mrs. Nínive Cánovas Cannesi (Marshall) comes back from a long tour visiting Europe and not even realizes that her house is being inhabited by two jobless and homeless bandits (Tin Tán and Tun Tún) with master keys who had been living there worry free. They all share the house for a period of time, unknowingly to each other, in a series of well crafted and perfectly timed scenes where Catita and Tin Tán can be in the same room without seeing each other... When Tin Tán notices her presence, poses as the help, intercepting the real employees and sending to the north pole, literally. So now that Catita has them at her service, she can take time for her real goal, the foundation of a House for old people so they can live happy until the day they die, but Tin Tán and Tun Tún keep getting in her way and complicating everything...
La soplona (uncredited)
Cantinflas, um entregador de jornal, decide ser bombeiro para cobrir despesas, já que seu melhor amigo morreu e ele deve sustentar sua filha. mas o que ela não sabe é que a menina é a herdeira de uma grande fortuna e que os malfeitores querem sequestrá-la. Em um dos incêndios ele salva seu antigo chefe, que lhe pede para voltar ao seu antigo emprego e assumir um bairro muito perigoso.
Neighbor (uncredited)
A low-class baker accidentally gets to know an attractive but bitter fiancée. By getting her snobby, dead-pan family to spend some time with his scumbag friends, he changes their lives, while at the time stealing the girl's heart.
Friend of Elena
The story of two estranged sisters, both of whom end up as prostitutes but for very different reasons.
Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Antonia
A poor shepherd is convinced to marry a beautiful woman. This is a Maquiavellian plan schemed by the woman's fiancé and her father.
Mujer en cantina (uncredited)
Para conquistar Rosário, Margarito finge ser o famoso fora da lei "Siete Machos", assim chamado porque "ele possui a coragem de sete machos".
Prostituta asesinada
A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.
Pasajera taxi (uncredited)
Taxi driver takes the wrong passenger at the wrong time and gets caught up in a murder investigation.
Pueblerina (uncredited)
Pedro has had many lovers but he only loves one of them, but this romance stop going on for his flirts with other women.
Enfermera (uncredited)
Starring Mexican star Pedro Infante, "Black Angels" is about a couple formed by a beautiful woman and a singer, both white, who are parents of a black girl. The woman blames him, but the girl will suffer the racist treatment from her own mother. Mexican version of the famous novel by Fannie Hurst "Imitation of Life"
Espectadora corte (uncredited)
A ambiciosa família Montes tem em sua casa o cientista Archimedes Monteagudo e seu assistente Cantinflas, que cuida do bem-estar de ambos. O professor está prestes a fazer uma grande descoberta: extrair da água do mar os componentes de um combustível que substituiria a gasolina carburex. A Cantinflas, por sua vez, quer descobrir um composto que permita prolongar a longevidade das rosas.
Cabaret Client
El Amor de M Bohio, which translates to "The Love of My Hut" (or shack ) and it comes from the lyrics o a popular love ballad of the same name. It is Director Juan Orol's tale of a violent love triangle where two farm hands out to prove who is the most macho, and thereby win the affections of a woman. This tragic love story takes place on a tropical plantation located just outside of Havana, where its workers are housed in small, thatched-roof "bohios". The two rival suitors are driven by passion for the girl they both love, and soon engage in a series of challenges designed to help this young woman choose the right guy in the end. These competitions start out to include simple and benign activities at first, like dancing, singing and dueling guitars, or betting on the winning bird at a cock-fight, However, they soon escalate to more violent activities, like public brawls, and saber dueling, which set life changing events into motion for everyone.
