Fernando De Bran

En Europe centrale, quelque part du côté de la Hongrie, le peuple a peur. Et quand il a peur, il fantasme des boucs-émissaires, qui ici se trouvent être accusés de vampirisme. Après de ridicules simulacres de procès, les victimes déjà mortes, exposées dans un cercueil de verre avec un pieu dans le cœur, sont décapitées, puis brûlées. Les cendres de la tête sont ensuite remises à la veuve éplorée.

Dale and Helen Brais are a marriage of farmers who subsist on what little they manage to get from their land. One stormy night, a stranger enters their home to rob and Dale kills him incidentally. The intruder is Red Burket, head of a band that is dedicated to sabotage the new railway line and there is a bounty on his head of $20,000. What seems the solution to the problems of the couple becomes the beginning of a nightmare.

Several stories about marriages that receive the news that they will be parents. Alejandro and Mercedes are newly married and receive the news with enthusiasm; Margarita and Enrique have been married for a while, but it will also be their first offspring; Ines and Luis have been in this situation several times, but this is the first time that the pregnancy is real. The reaction of the parents, the cravings of the pregnant women, the name search for the child, everything is always the same and always different. None of the couples resembles the others, but when the moment of delivery arrives, the nerves will be the same.

A married man with mother expected every day and especially forward to the arrival of the night to let off steam in a nightclub and escape from the daily drudgery family.

The purchase and sale of ranches that occupy land where the railway has to pass causes various problems. Also, a gold mine in these lands creates several disputes.