This film tells several short stories that end up lapsing in the emergency room of a hospital, because it is dedicated to nurses. Cantinflas appears at the end of the film playing the role of Luis, a man who has five daughters and looks forward to a boy, but fate plays a trick and the child dies at birth, but history gives a nice twist and a message of hope.

The staff of a record factory drown their sorrows at Duffy's Tavern, while the company owner faces threats of bankruptcy.

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.

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.

A faceless killer who hunts women can only be stopped by a detective with a disturbing past.

A con artist seduces the widow of a millionaire, only to learn she'd plotted with her lover to murder the late husband. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues—but who's the cat?

After arguing with her husband, a woman runs out of the house in the car and dies in a mysterious accident

Northern Mexico, early 20th century. Reynaldo del Hierro is murdered while riding with his sons Reynaldo and Martín, whose mother instills in them the need for revenge.

A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan—who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era—has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a crucial bridge in order to halt the enemy's progress.

A Captain with a mistress at another port leaves his wife on a routine trip with his son. There, after making a hasty retreat from his mistress, she, with the help of a local shaman, conspire to take him away from his family forever.

Maria Felix, the archetypical Mexican movie star, plays one of her bad/good girl roles, with elements of the characters played by Joan Crawford, Barbara Stanwyck and even Marlene Dietrich. (she sings a song by her then husband, the famous composer,Augustine Lara). Arturo de Cordova's tortured lover is reminiscent of his role in Buñuel's Exterminating Angel. There's some extraordinary photography , stylized sets (the furniture designer gets a credit) and outrageous dresses for La Doña, as Maria Felix is still known in Mexico. It's definitely one of the styles that Buñuel expanded in his early Mexican films like the 1955 "Ensayo de un crimen."