In this two-story movie derived from a couple of Cornell Woolrich stories, director Carlos Hugo Christiansen offers the audience tales of suspense. In "Somebody on the Phone", Ángel Magaña is in charge while his parents are taking a holiday abroad. His sister, Renée Dumas, has been hanging out at unsavory joints with strange men. He discovers she has drawn out all the money in the bank account and is receiving phone calls from an unknown man who signals his calls by hanging up the phone after it rings five times and then calls back. In "Hummingbird Comes Home", blind Ilde Pirovano has her son return after a long absence. He is now a thief who plans to rob the town's bank.
These being Cornell Woolrich stories, they're mordant and quirky. The lighting by Berlin-born cinematographer Pablo Taberno is gloomy and well into the noir territory, with elaborate set designs by Manuel Villar.
Originally this was planned as a three-part movie. However, the production company didn't want to release anything longer than 85 minutes. So the third story was split off into a separate movie called If I Should Die Before Wake.
