Chico, a young Puerto Rican living in Spanish Harlem, becomes a heroin addict after a rivalry between him and his father for his mother's affection. Following a 6-month jail term, he is now cured of his drug habit and working in his father's business. Chico meets Nick, his former dealer, for a casual drink, but his father assumes he has resumed drug use.

Among Delia, a socialite, and Jorge a bohemian cabaret pianist, begins a relationship that ends in tragedy.

A freed slave, who is descended from a murdered witch, plots revenge with her grandmother on a sugar plantation's inhabitants. Complications ensue due to her love for the master of the estate.

A physician launches his own investigation into a gang of opium traffickers, while a mother who lost her son to the drug vows revenge against those who led him into that world.

In his eagerness, to be movie extras, Tin Tan and his carnal Marcelo police get into trouble, among other entanglements.

Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle.

Publicist on a movie set invents a romance between two stars, and then they start getting all mushy for real. But one of them's married, uh-oh.