Marvin, an actor in cheap television commercials, is secretly in love with the beautiful Jenny and attributes his rejection to his very short stature. Depressed, he wanders through a park where a Harlequin encourages him to take control of his destiny with a magic pill.

Triunfador

A timid and sensitive man quits his 9-5 job to pursue his dream of becoming a watercolor painter. However, his neighbors and love will not agree with his new endeavor.

El acuarelista

Silvia, a beautiful 45-year-old widow, is obsessed with having a child and finds in attractive but naive Mercedes the perfect candidate to bear it. Silvia kindly offers her a job and a room in her house, and then manipulates her into seducing a young man named Jaime. They soon fall in love and Mercedes becomes pregnant. Silvia will do anything in her power to keep the baby, even if it means leaving a couple of bodies behind.