Librado, an unemployed man, lives in a crowded small house with numerous children and relatives, is beaten for stealing a car antenna. His godmother and her children try to settle in his place. She then is arrested at a supermarket for stealing, however, she offers herself and volunteers a friend of hers for sex to the policemen so she can be released. She is a maid of an employee who acts subservient to his boss, a mid-level government employee at once servile who delivers speeches on sexuality in educational texts and then discusses the matter with his brother, a corrupt inspector.

When a young diplomat manages to get the Austrian government to return the Plume of Moctezuma to Mexico for an exhibition, his life quickly falls apart.

When a man dies, he leaves a life insurance policy in his daughters' names, and his sons-in-law hatch a plan to collect it twice.

While attending the birth of Isabel, the wife of foreigner Felipe, Mama Santos predicts that "something terrible is going to happen in the town." From this omen, calamities will torment the locals.

Pablo Rueda, a frustrated writer and artist, wanders through Mexico City in a labyrinth of dreams and memories that may or may not be those of his novels.

It narrates the phenomenon of the Mexican Revolution, satirically reflected through what happens in a town far from the places where the true Revolution was fiercely fought.

When Bobby Terón decides to return to the ring after retiring as a boxer, he faces opposition from his wife. While his wife believes that Bobby is not fit to fight, his manager Hernandez assures him that the boxer will regain his prestige. Hernandez arranges a fight, only this time he is not willing to submit to an unfair decision like the one that ended his pupil's career and decides to play with the same weapons.

A lucky young man wins the lottery, but misusing the money brings terrible consequences.

A handsome young millionaire wastes his life in parties and debauchery. When his father dies, he inherits him on the condition that he works and marries, but he gets drunk and dies in an accident. A fat and poor bum in love with the waitress of a restaurant, robs the factory where he works as a watchman and when the police arrive he falls from the roof and dies. Both arrive at the reception of the afterlife and receive a new opportunity. They are given pills to temporarily recover their bodies, but they confuse them and end up exchanging them, which causes trouble and entanglements with their girlfriends and friends.