1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.
Anthology film, four episodes.
Based on Ladislas Fodor's "Stranger on the Stairs". A loved triangle composed by a cynical entrepreneur, a loan manager, and a seductive secretary will lead to a criminal plot in Cuba.
Papa hires a "boyfriend" to indulge her in her fantasies of old-fashioned romance.
Three married couples gather to celebrate the eighteenth anniversary of their marriage mourning the absence of a friend who was best man at all three weddings.
Timid, browbeaten salaryman becomes famous author overnight.
A beautiful woman of affairs falls in love with a handsome young man of great promise. Fearing for his future, the man's father begs her to leave his son so that her reputation will not hold him back.
Military leader is appointed to local government, becomes overly despotic in his leadership.
On their anniversary, a lomg-married couple reminisce about the history of their marriage
A woman betrayed and betrayed by a man falls into despair and ends up killing him.
Sculptor becomes infatuated with model. Everyone suffers.
A woman who fancies herself an aristocrat rejects a potential suitor because he's not of her class. Also: their adult children have their own drama, a bit inflected with hippie-ish values.
Joselito lives with his grandmother in a fishing village. His father went to America long ago to make a fortune. One day, the boy decides to travel there to meet him. He takes courage and embarks on a fragile boat and miraculously is saved at sea by a vessel that leads him to Mexico where he meets Tom Thumb, a little newsboy who lives many adventures and helps him in the search.
Man and woman have a couple of one-night-stands spread out over 15 or 20 years.
Due to confusion, Rafael is believed responsible for the death of Teresa. His wife Lilia and his brother looking for the real culprits.
Lena, a beautiful and mysteriously sinister refugee haunted by her past, is chased into the arms of a rich, unsuspecting industrialist not for love, but for information.
The Galician Candida has a bakery in front of the butcher Robustito, who constantly berates although children of both Aurora and Rodolfo are in love. In the neighborhood where they live, the neighbors prepared a joke to the galician girl. She gets angry Robustito hard time believing him guilty of what happened.
Rich woman manouevres in secret to restore her dead father's good reputation.
To help her pilot brother, Maria disguises as a man to take his place, and must live in the jungle with a very "macho" captain, eventually falling in love.
