Don Fidel
Fernando / Miguel / Manuel are provincial men who go to the cabaret El Sultán, in Madrid (Spain), in search of the company of their hostess girls. Pepita / Patricia / Estrella are more than just prostitutes and when customers who require their services have the opportunity to meet them in the solitude of their apartments their true dimension as human beings emerges in them.
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Andrés (Fernando Fernán Gómez) is a simple man: he owns a store that sells religious articles and he's never left his hometown of Murcia. After unexpectedly inheriting a sum of money, he decides to take a trip to Paris, where his friend Armando (Alfredo Landa) lives. His friend finds him lodging in a boarding house where Andrés meets Ninette (Rosenda Monteros), an attractive Parisian girl.
Emilio and Virtudes Palomo are invited by Don Alberto, Emilio's boss, to a dinner at his chalet. Don Alberto, who confuses simplicity with stupidity, intends to frame the Palomos for a crime he has committed.
In a small town near Madrid, Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and with a childish personality, live under the shadow of their bossy older sister, Ignacia, a grumpy old maid.
Don Gervasio
Madrid, Spain. Eloísa, a self-sacrificing wife and efficient mother, lives in the neighborhood of Maravillas with her husband, a violent policeman; her sanctimonious son, who spends his life studying and praying to atone for the sins of his family; and her two daughters, obsessed with wealth, who hate each other deeply.
Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.
