Antonio and Elisa, a newlywed couple, go on honeymoon to a seaside hotel, where he, a crime reporter obsessed with uncovering a major crime, finds his big opportunity.

Life events around a city street and its residents are told along the years while time goes by, wars break out and end and life evolves.

Carmen, Merche and Paula are three young singers living in the same pension. Every night are forced to dodge men arriving from Madrid in search of adventure. They are assisted by Don Narciso, a fellow board that has solutions for everything. What I really want is to get married and all three have found a boyfriend, but every couple has their problems.

Elena is a writer and is in a relationship with a painter, Fernando. Charo works as a waitress in a hotel and continues to dream of John Sargent, her platonic love, although when she discovers that the actor is gay she returns to her boyfriend Luis. Mara, a model, and Miguel is dating a sick man much older than them. Eugenia is a haute couture dressmaker and cares for her niece Soledad, who wants to be a singer. All of them have ambitions of love, but none is happy with their current situation.

Berta is a German who comes to a small fishing village to marry Lorenzo, owner of an island and that only known her through his letters. The early days of their marriage are a constant disappointment, especially when it finds that her husband has no resemblance to the author of the letters. He lives embittered by an old story and is hated by all.

Cascales Orencio is a humble farmer who one day, unexpectedly, is surprised by two Air Force parachutists. After the event, and with the help of two military decides to join the volunteer corps paratrooper Sewer.Just imagine Orencio tribulations that await on the base!

Carlos, a reckless card player burdened by debt, becomes involved in a shady affair when an old flame asks him to return a necklace he has pawned.

One unlucky day, a married couple with four children get an eviction notice: the building they live in is to be demolished. The family looks desperately for a new home, which is no easy task in Madrid in the fifties.