Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Michèle MorganNellie | Nellie |
 Gérard PhilipeGeorges | Georges |
 Víctor Manuel MendozaDon Rodrigo | Don Rodrigo |
 Carlos López MoctezumaDoctor | Doctor |
 Michèle CordoueAnna | Anna |
| AAndré ToffelTom | Tom |
 Arturo Soto RangelPriest | Priest |
 Josefina EscobedoBonita, Rosa's sister (uncredited) | Bonita, Rosa's sister (uncredited) |
 Jaime FernándezBus driver (uncredited) | Bus driver (uncredited) |
| CChel LópezPickpocket (uncredited) | Pickpocket (uncredited) |
| LLucrecia MuñozRosa, George's lover (uncredited) | Rosa, George's lover (uncredited) |
 Beatriz RamosBrothel Madam (uncredited) | Brothel Madam (uncredited) |
| GGuillermo Segura(uncredited) | (uncredited) |
| SSalvador TerrobaPost Office Client (uncredited) | Post Office Client (uncredited) |
 Luis BuñuelSmuggler (uncredited) | Smuggler (uncredited) |