At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
