Viruta and Capulina are a reporter and a photographer, respectively, of a detective newspaper. Trying to obtain notoriety they interview a grim killer known as "El Tampico", but when he finds out that they are reporters he goes ballistic and in their escape they lose the pictures and the interview notes. Instead of getting a raise, they receive a punishment from there boss. Deceived, going out with their girlfriends they witness a bank robbery. The robbers capture and torture Viruta and Capulina, but in a confusion they manage to escape. So the robbers then kidnap the girlfriends so they can't testify against them.