El hijo de los pobres

Slice-of-life melodrama in a Mexico City slum.

Ups and downs of an unskilled laborer who crosses and then crosses back.

Singer Cornelio Reyna returns to Guadalajara to propose marriage to his childhood sweetheart Silvia. This depresses one of Silvia's suitors, who will soon unleash a series of misfortunes.

A pair of travelling salesmen try to unload coffins in a series of small towns and get caught up in sketch-comedy anecdotes.