Juan de Orduña

Pompeyo and Rodolfo work at the "Heraldo de Madrid", but they dream of becoming film actors. They go to a casting for an American film that is being shot for a few days in Madrid. After being rejected, as a way to become famous, they decide to fake the murder of one of them in the city's Puerta del Sol Square. They steal a skeleton, burn it, and make everybody believe that it is the remains of Pompeyo. As part of the plan, Pompeyo goes to Barcelona. Rodolfo is detained, accused of the murder.

A woman abandoned by her lover sells his body to a sculptor, who is the best friend of her lover.

The beautiful Mari Pepa lives with her brother and her aunt in the slums of Madrid. Because of the ragamuffins of her brother, petty thief, she is forced to move house, ending up, coincidences of life, to the courtyard where Felipe lives, who seeks for her for a long time.

As he shows a considerably higher interest in night life and vaudeville chorus girls than in textbooks, Gerardo is sent by his father from Madrid to the University of Santiago de Compostela, with the purpose of having him center in studying. There, Gerardo ends living in the "Casa de la Troya" boarding house, where he makes good friends in other students, and falls in love with the beautiful Carmiña. But this love is not approved by her uncle and aunt.

Aragón, Spain, early 20th century. María del Pilar is a honest girl whose good name is dirtied when an old suitor seeking revenge accuses her of losing her virginity outside of marriage. The scandal soon spreads throughout the countryside.