Landowner Raúl marries Norma, twenty-five years younger. His son Armando graduates and becomes his stepmother's lover. His father discovers them but remains silent.

The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.

Orphan girl grows up to take revenge on the men who killed her parents.

A man goes on a trip and then returns to his village pretending that everything went well for him.

An outcast, Rodolfo Martínez, whom no one loves and whom everyone despises and undervalues ​​in his town of Valle Verde, in Mexico, decides to change his luck. He decides to invent that he has a very important ancestor and that is why he deserves a statue that will remind future generations of everything he has done. Rodolfo doesn't care what happens, all he wants is to stop being a failure and for people to see him as an equal.

María Antonia, Beatriz and Leonor are three classmates who are anxiously awaiting the celebration of their 15th birthday. However, each of them will have to cope with their complicated personal situation.

Mexico is in the midst of Revolution when the protagonist returns after studying in Paris to find his native town in Chihuahua occupied by Francisco Villa’s revolutionary forces. He visits his deserted home and remembers people and events from his adolescence that provide glimpses of pre-Revolutionary society under dictatorship: his uncle, the chief of police; his sister’s involvement with a liberal political association; bathing with the girls from a local brothel; a labor strike that ended in a massacre. Returning to the present he discovers that his father has been assassinated and, in the company of his father’s former servant, joins the revolutionary movement.

A rumor reaches a small town, San Garabato, that a government infiltrator will arrive to check the conditions of the community. Quickly, the municipal president, Don Perpetuo del Rosal, orders the imprisonment of those who might give a bad image. An indigenous man named Calzonzin arrives in town, pursued by two men. He is quickly taken as the infiltrated inspector, and protected by all the local authorities.

A group of people suffering from mental retardation, blindness and physical malformations work in a traveling circus.

In a building, at the same time a girl's birthday is celebrated and an old man who died of cold is being watched.