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

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.

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.

A cocker and his driver were attacked by strangers, but leave unharmed. Jesús denounces the fact to his friend Mario, mayor of San Miguel el Alto.

A mechanic takes his family to a car race and a series of events occur which brings problems, betrayals, violence and the unexpected death of an elderly person.

As punishment for participating in a game show a nun is sent to a small town. The chief and presidential hopeful municipal Instead, a pinko comecuras that attacks capitalism and refuses to let children be vaccinated and go to school, is opposed to the presence of the newcomer, but as the religious conquest people and helps to rescue the kidnapped daughter of the chief, the evil becomes good.

A political player is presumed dead in a traffic accident; his relatives all try to cash in on his estate while he goes into hiding with schemes of his own.

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.