Teresa is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, desperately seeking to leave the grinding poverty of the neighborhood where she lives.

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.

A hacienda seem to be haunted by La Llondra, the crying woman.

All it says in my notes is "Like 'Juan Sin Miedo', only with soldiers." So... Army officer seeks revenge for... something...

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.

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.

Family in crisis: the American Dream collapses for four members of a Mexican family in Texas, all at the same time.

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.

In Ciudad Juárez, a prostitute decides to go straight when her drug-dealer lover is trapped. She marries a rich man, but a pimp from her past reappears unexpectedly.