 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 as he finds out that they are reporters he goes furious and in the escape they loose the pictures and the interview. 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 kidnap and torture Viruta and Capulina, but in a confusion they manage to escape. So the robbers then kidnap the girlfriends so they can t declare against them.