Irma
The newly separated Leonor comes from the monied class, while sixteen year old aspiring ballerina Emilia does not. They begin a tense pas de deux waiting out Emilia’s pregnancy in a remote country home, isolated from the world and each other.
Julia
In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to an event both anticipated and dreaded, Sol begins to understand the gravity of the celebration this year and watches as her family does the same.
Margarita
With a keen sense of how to deploy omens that herald change, Alejandra Márquez Abella portrays a period of epochal change in rural Mexico – as seen by those who are usually restricted to the role of passive supporting actor.
A pair of estranged offspring visit their parents in an abandoned Mexican village.
Memories as photographs: no date, no place, no names.
Gloria
A group of elderly people gather at night to play bingo. Mario loses every time and has become obsessed with the game. Fortune accompanies him outside the room to show him that luck rules his life and that of the elderly group; but Mario will not accept losing this time.