It's fathers versus daughters, and old world versus new, in this quick-witted satire from director Alejandro Galindo, a self-proclaimed leftist and one of Mexican cinema's frankest examiners of that nation's social tensions. Papa Rodrigo rules over his restless brood with an iron fist, treating his home like a castle and his family like dirt. But all tyrannies must someday end, and Rodrigo's begins to crumble the day he opens the door to a traveling vacuum-cleaner salesman. Suddenly this overlord's feudal castle is flooded with “Bright O'Home” modern appliances and the aura of an upwardly mobile, self-made man. A bright new world begins to dawn, especially for Rodrigo's beautiful, once-dutiful daughter Maru. Parodying the archetypes of family melodrama as expertly as it embraces them, One Family Among Many satirizes the turmoil of a changing time.