[1] Cuentos para mayores is an anthology film, a genre popular around the 1960s and consisting of several sections that may or may not be related to each other by theme or character.
[2] Similar to Adolescence of Cain, a humble couple in a Caracas slum cannot afford to buy medicine for their sick daughter.
Filled with helplessness, the father decides to injure himself at work to claim workers' compensation, but after returning home he discovers that his daughter has died.
When they get a contract someone lends them the instruments but they are arrested before they show up when they decide to serenade the band leader's girlfriend, whom their parents have forbidden them to see.
A congressional clerk is mistaken for a congressman and takes financial advantage of his position while attending to the people's requests.