A novel of a young girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Her neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong - not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her.

Don Napo es muy conocido en el vecindario por recoger la basura con un estilo peculiar. Cuando descubre a un bebé abandonado y un valioso cuadro escondido entre la basura, se desata una trama que nos barre de risa y buen humor. Sweeping the streets and cleaning the beautiful city of Mexico, Cantinflas gets into his role of cleaner but also into the role of flirting.

A recently ordained priest is sent to a small parish church in rural Mexico to help an aging priest. Upon arriving at his new post, he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession. Quickly her passion for her faith becomes entangled in a growing attraction to the new priest. When the priest crosses the line that separates temptation from sin, he finds himself torn between the devine and the carnal, the righteous...