Josefa and Ramón remember an afternoon far outside the city when their love was dangerous, fresh, and unobserved. Joe is a particularly drunk, aggressive customer and his crude advances towards Josefa trigger an ugly incident. He deals, she is there to attract the crowd: “Without a girl, there can be no hotel, without a beautiful one, there can be no business.” The miners are addicted to gambling, making fortunes, and hopelessly ruining themselves, night after night. Panicking in the face of her expectations, Joe runs out into the night. She sizes him up and decides he is the perfect man to help her realize her future ambitions. Joe romances Ah Sing with a corny old song. Josefa, a young Mexican who works the bar, and Ah Sing, a vivacious young Chinese prostitute, voice a more sober view of life.
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