The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
Ernesto Laguardia
Julieta Egurrola
Blanca Guerra
Lucía Muñoz
Verónica Merchant
Bruno Bichir
Alberto Estrella
Alonso Echánove
Luis Felipe Tovar
Julián Pastor
Luisa Huertas
Jorge Fegán
Ernesto Yáñez
Alejandro Parodi
Darío T. Pie
Luis Rábago
Graciela Bernardos