Emilio Gómez Muriel

Seven stories: 1) Envy. 2) Laziness. 3) Pride. 4) Gula. 5) Ira. 6) Greed. 7) Lust.

Gas-station owner, his paralyzed wife, and the guy that runs the diner next door butt heads and/or bump uglies with a female drifter.

Hotel with a dozen stories unfolding simultaneously: man with brain tumor, child with leukemia, drug-traffic magnate and his paid escort, rich ...

A rich and powerful man is married to a much younger woman, who has a lover.

Spoiled rich girl hits on every man that catches her eye. She should probably stay away from her sister’s fiance… BUT…

Farm-girl, seduced and abandoned, goes to the big city to have her baby and live out her shameful soiled disgrace away from her birth people.

A man, torn inside by two passions, falls for the woman against whom he sought revenge, believing her to be responsible for the death of his brother.

Mother and child are separated during the Spanish Civil War. Believing the mother to be dead, the child is sent to a refugee orphanage in Mexico, ...

Four anecdotes involving a mink coat in display in a shop window.

The story is developed on a rural community and the main character is the rural school teacher who is about to lose his job and his sight due to ...