El casado casa quiere

Carlos Rivas and his fiancée, Alicia Conejo, have saved enough money to begin construction on a house in a still-to-be-developed tract, well off the highway to Cuernavaca from Mexico City. When they decide to visit the site, they first take a bus, then hire Anastasio Lugo, or Tasi, to take them the rest of the way in his horse-drawn carriage. The housing development is beyond the end of a paved road, but the location is attractive to them. Later, workmen are laying the foundations of the house when an old friend of Carlos, playboy Quico Posada, who has been working outside the country, drives up to the site. Carlos is delighted to see Quico and they discuss their respective romances. Carlos works for his bachelor uncle Jorge, his only living relative, in an export/import business and, as Jorge has been running the California end of the business for some time, Carlos has not told him of his engagement to Alicia. When Alicia arrives in a car driven by her friend, the elegant Elena Luna, Carlos introduces Quico to them both. Alicia shows the floor plans to Elena, then becomes involved in an argument with Carlos over whether one room should be a sewing room for her or an office for him. After Quico begins to romance Elena, Alicia's parents and fourteen other relatives make their way to the site to see the construction and also begin to argue about the layout of the house. Some days later, as construction proceeds, Carlos learns that his uncle has returned to Mexico and plans to inspect the house. When he sees it, Jorge is impressed that Carlos has saved so much to enable him to build it, then decides that he will live there with him and promotes him to manager of his Mexico City office. When Jorge tells Carlos that, in Los Angeles, he has met a beautiful, well-educated young woman, Tinita Cancun, whom he thinks would make Carlos an excellent wife, Carlos confesses that he is already engaged and is building the house for his wife and himself to live in. Alicia and her family are due to visit again, but Carlos is able to introduce Alicia to Jorge before the rest of the mob arrives. Jorge and Alicia get along well until he makes it clear that he still intends to live with them and starts to redesign the house. Quico persuades Jorge to go for a drive so that Carlos and Alicia can be alone to discuss things and Jorge will not have to meet all the other Conejos. However, the rest of Alicia's family arrive and Carlos becomes involved in a heated dispute with her father, a rabid trade unionist, over an impending carpenters' strike, which Sr. Conejo supports. Jorge returns and is introduced to Alicia's family. All goes well until Jorge announces that his wedding present to the couple will be reimbursement of the cost of the house. However, when the family finds out that Jorge intends to live with the couple, they are dismayed and an aunt collapses, as she had intended to move in with them. Alicia's mother states that she has already selected all the furniture for the house, but Jorge protests that he wants to choose his own. This disagreement initiates a major dispute between the families and ends when Jorge fires Carlos and Alicia's mother withdraws permission for Carlos to marry Alicia as he cannot now support her. Then, the carpenters go on strike. A few weeks later, however, Carlos has somehow managed to complete and furnish the house and puts it up for sale. After Quico buys the house from him, Elena tells Carlos that Alicia is still very much in love with him. Quico surprises Elena by asking her to marry him and she agrees. However, when Quico tells her that he has bought the house for them, she says that she would prefer to live elsewhere so Quico returns ownership to Carlos. When Carlos, Quico and Elena leave for a few minutes, Alicia arrives to visit her dream house and weeps in an upstairs room. Her mother and father, who have been keeping her a virtual prisoner, follow her there but are preceded by Jorge and his bride Tinita, who want to buy the house. Carlos returns and thinking he has heard a plumber working upstairs, discovers Alicia. They embrace and he dries her tears. When Alicia's parents arrive, Jorge locks the young couple inside and informs her parents that Carlos is working for him again and that he has given them a large sum of cash as a present. Her parents finally give their blessings to the marriage, and Carlos and Alicia are left alone inside their dream house.