Nacho (Jack Black) é um jovem criado no monastério mexicano de Oaxaca e deve fazer algo para salvar o local sagrado. Ele resolve entrar para o torneio de luta livre. Mas as intenções de Natcho não são totalmente altruistas: ele está de olho na irmã Encarnacion (Ana de la Reguera), uma bela freira mexicana que acaba de chegar no monastério.
Alex, a real estate businessman, has no concerns in giving her wife every kind of freedom. They invite Gloria, an old friend of both, to spend the summer break in their countryside house next to the beach. Gloria doesn't come alone: she comes with young Susy, her lover. Alex will use all of his charms and luxury to manipulate his new guests; meanwhile, his wife and Gloria will gang up to murder him.
Drama - Hailed as the first film to portray the Chicano experience -- and the first Chicano film to be financed by the Mexican government -- Raíces de Sangre tells the story of immigrant workers exploited on both sides of the border. Facing unsafe conditions, a group of young Chicano workers tries to organize for better conditions but are thwarted by their own co-workers who've accepted bribes from the Americans in turn for stymieing the effort. - Richard Yniguez, León Singer, Enrique Muñoz
