In the midst of the Mexican Revolution, the landowner Mendoza manages to get along with both the government and the revolutionary group. For the former, he is a supporter of Huerta. For the latter, he is a Zapata supporter. Depending on the political preference of whoever visits him at his...
In Michoacan in the 1920s, Gabriel, a young farmer and champion cockfighter, finds himself in violent opposition to Roman, who not only wants to beat Gabriel's fighting cock, but to steal Gabriel's wife Rosa.
Moments before he will be executed by the French Intervention Army, the liberal leader reads a love letter by his girlfriend. His memories provide the poetic pictures of this romantic historical drama.
Beautiful peasant girl runs afoul of her landlord's horny son and he poisons the well between her and her fiance, so she runs away and joins the Revolution.
Alberto is born in wartime, where his father dies a hero. He grows up effeminate. His mother sends him to military college where Fernando bullies him, but they become friends. When war comes, he has to face his fears.
The bride of a Federale colonel rejects him on their wedding night, and begins extramarital relations with a strapping young leader of the peasant revolution against which the colonel is fighting.
Colonel Carrasco's wife Marta leaves him taking his young son. The child, Juan, grows into an admirable and well-mannered young man. Having been promoted to a higher rank of power amidst the Mexican Revolution, the indulgent and corrupt Colonel accepts a bribe to free a revolutionary, Felipe...
