The story of the difficult life of itinerant artists in Mexico and their futile dreams of happiness. Marin's father, a traveling artist, dreamed of saving money and sending his daughter to school. But his earnings were too small, barely enough to cover their most basic needs. And Maria continued to perform with her dogs. When Maria and the aerial acrobat Maurimo fell in love and decided to get married to start a new life, their dreams were once again shattered by harsh reality—they worked in different troupes, and Maria could not leave her old, sick father...

The life of the Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco and his quest to create a career in New York.

A dysfunctional family travels to Cuernavaca, to celebrate their grandmother's birthday. One pretends to have a boyfriend she just met. Another has a girlfriend who is in love with one of his brothers. Another can not stand the way the grandmother treats him but he has been afraid of her for so long...until now.

Ana leaves her abusing husband in order to get her lfe back inspite the opposition of her own mother

Wealthy family opposes the romance between one of their young ladies and a working-class stiff.

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

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.

Bumbling inventor/jack of all trades does sketch-comedy stuff for 65 minutes, then rescues Mexico City from a Mad Scientist triggering earthquakes.