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Based on the novel "La parcela" by LĂłpez Portillo and Rojas. The story explores conflicts over land, power, and honor between two rival landowners (the compadres Miguel and Pedro), whose sons struggle to overcome this dispute so they can pursue their love.
A group of students enjoy crazy adventures during their vacation in Orizaba, Veracruz.
The Dressel family owns a prosperous hardware store in the city. The business is managed by Mrs. Dressel, a strict widow who has two sons: Federico and Rodolfo. Federico falls in love with the singer Magdalena and marries her against Frau Dressel’s wishes, as she wants her heir to marry a German woman. The young couple must face constant harassment from Frau Dressel and an accusation of adultery.
Two good friends — the owner and general manager of a ranch — fall in love with the same girl at the same time. The owner tries to 'buy' the girl without knowing she is in love with the manager.
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.
Class conflicts between two families; one's upper-class but decaying, one's industrious middle-class on the rise. Also Christmas.
