Third world hero, 'Pepe el Toro' ('Pepe the Bull') is an honest man trying to get by every day working in his little carpentry shop. Taking care of her paralytic mother and her teen daughter, whom he keeps from knowing the truth about her missing mother, he struggles in a ultra-poor neighborhood where he can't keep up with miseries and personal losses. He ends up, unjustly, in jail from which he escapes to go to see his dying mother. He is recaptured and brought back into the penitentiary where he finds and manages to get a dramatic confession from the perpetrator of the murder he was accused with. Once free he goes back to his daughter and to his faithful girlfriend, whom he marries and has a baby with and retakes on his noble occupation and his poor but happy life.
Who does Pepe go see when he escapes from jail?
His dying mother