A harsh reality of extreme poverty, injustice and ignorance that identify a Mexico in decline during the decade of the 70s. Through various sarcastic situations that the characters perform, they criticize society, but mainly the government. Not everything is misfortune, because this helps to overcome what society suffers from: the Mexican always gets ahead.

Four separate, interwoven stories, unified by the common theme of man's inhumanity to fellow man. The Babylonian story deals with the fall of Babylon in 538 B.C. The Judean story treats the life of Christ. The French story centers on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572. The modern story is set in an American mill town and the slum area of an American city.