Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational opportunities. When they get there they have to live in a poor home in one of the slums located in the city's outskirts, where they encounter a horrible world full of promiscuity and misery, that is quite different from what they expected and that eventually will lead Juana to self-destruction and Juan to reconsider his life in the city.

"El Suave" is a comedian who is committed to marrying Eva, but the wedding has not yet taken place due to not having enough money for it until, one day, he appears to "El Suave" an eight-year-old boy nicknamed "Tucusito" involving him in a chain of entanglements when he tries to hide the existence of the child from Eva, because Tucsito is his son