Howard Lester

A documentary portrait of Slab City, a California location that serves as a winter home for seniors who travel there and live in their trailers and motor homes.

The young Ramon Salazar, son of a village owner, dreams of becoming a pearl fisherman. His father agrees to let him experience this job. Ramon enters a forbidden cave, den of a giant skate nicknamed the Manta Diablo. He finds an oyster containing a black pearl of unusual size. His father donates it to the Virgin rather than sell it to dishonest traffickers. Shortly after, the flotilla of the village led by Salazar perishes at sea. Ramon must face the Manta Diablo with another fisherman to bring prosperity to the village ..

とある砂漠ではりつけにされ、裸の子どもたちに石を投げつけられているキリストに似た風ぼうの盗賊（ホラシオ・サリナス）。自力で十字架から降り立った彼は、居合わせた男と共に町へ向かう。町ではキリスト像を売る太った男たちに捕らえられ、鏡の部屋に閉じ込められてしまう盗賊だったが、何とか部屋から脱出し……。