Two shoeshine girls and a newspaper vendor survive in the Mapocho neighborhood of Santiago. While looking for better luck, Maruja becomes involved with a businessman who helps her become a famous singer. Meanwhile, the two shoeshine boys happen to come across some money from a bank robbery, changing their luck.

Adapted from a story by Joaquín Díaz Garcés

A portrait of a Chilean middle-class family in the 1940s and 1970s.

Musical film that tells the story of a famous singer with an unshakable security and is at the peak of her career, until Gloria Grey appears, a beautiful and talented beginner who will displace her, to burst into her life generates all kinds of conflicts of egos, jealousy and misunderstandings.

The head of a plumbing and electrical workshop is a victim of bureaucracy in public offices and is unable to pay his debts, so his workshop is closed. With a lot of luck he manages to get a repair job in the house of a minister, then he enters to work in a ministry, also becoming a bureaucrat. Taking advantage of his friendship with the minister, he is promoted to become chief archivist, but he realizes the routine that is filling the job and resigns.

After arriving on a ship in Valparaíso, Bohr meets Euríspides Chamorro, with whom he begins a trip through Chile, full of sketches, most of them led by the comedy duo Los Capo- rales.

Following the death of the mayor, an electoral campaign begins in the fictional town of Huevinco to choose a successor. A comedy-like set of situations unfolds, creating a story centred on comedian Manolo González.