Taller Mecanico
After a terrorist attack on Guatemala in the 1980's, a small child is left deaf and motherless. Now her father has to step up and take care of her by himself while the fear of inner armed conflict looms over the country.
Sacerdote
소멸 위기의 고대 토착 언어 ‘시크릴어’. 그러나 시크릴어를 구사하는 마지막 원어민, 이사우로와 에바리스토는 젊은 시절 크게 싸운 뒤 서로 말을 안 섞은 지 50년이 넘었다. 젊은 언어학자 마르틴은 연구를 위해 이들을 설득하려 하지만 둘의 과거는 시크릴어의 비밀과 함께 숲 속 깊이 감추어져 있는데... 50년이 넘도록 얽히고설킨 그들의 진짜 비밀이 드러난다.
Diego Landa
Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeologist (Guerra) and asks her to tell him about his ancestors. The crew travelled to over 15 locations in Mexico and Guatemala, including Tulum and Chichén Itzá.
Hotel Clerk
A screenwriter is sent to Mexico to develop a story that can be used to wrap up a movie presently in production. Given a very short time allotment, the writer immerses himself in the seamier side of a Mexican beach resort, but soon finds himself involved in a 'body organ for profit' operation. Drugged, he has one of his own kidneys removed, and then, with a woman he isn't sure he can trust, he sets out to expose the ring...
Bank Teller #2
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
An episodic film showing death, in various forms, in line with the mexican idiosyncrasy.
Cura de San Miguel
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
