The Abysses of Life was the only film produced by Peru Film Company, a company run by the Polish Stefanía Socha. Three years after arriving in Peru, she decided to undertake the production of a feature film, for which she enlisted the collaboration of journalist and writer of costumbrista works and zarzuelas, Julio Alfonso Hernández, who wrote the screenplay. Students from the acting school she ran played the central roles in the film.