Following “the life in the kitchen of a vast New York City restaurant where all the cultures of the world mix during the lunchtime rush.”
Mario
Luis, um jovem de 18 anos de origem indígena, ingressa no Colégio Militar Heroico com a esperança de garantir um futuro melhor. Lá ele encontra um sistema rígido e institucionalmente violento projetado para torná-lo um soldado perfeito.
An outbreak has Esteban confined at home and separated from Alan. From his rooftop bedroom, he tries to maintain their relationship through video calls, but the isolation seems endless and reality catches up with them.
Monte
Baseado em uma história real, este romance de décadas entre um aspirante a chef e um professor segue sua jornada traiçoeira do México a Nova York com sonhos, esperanças e memórias a reboque.
Verrugas
Max retorna para sua favela transformada no vocalista de uma banda de rock. Lá, as memórias esperam, as últimas notícias e as verdades que ficaram em silêncio por anos: Sonia é uma voz que fala da morte, Ramira e Carcacha regente com a miséria do bairro, e Guama afunda na loucura. As razões para o abandono são evidentes, as mortes e as promessas não cumpridas são recapitulativas. Max volta a morrer, não sem primeiro entender e significar todas as razões que ficaram pendentes.
Saúl
Orlando and Saul meet by accident. The first one is a self-confident young man, university gymnast who avoids that his HIV-positive status defines him; while Saul, on the opposite, is insecure and barely understands what having an active sexual life means. The meeting will result in a new way of seeing life, one without fear where sex is an encounter and not a way of getting away from others.
In the surroundings of Military Camp 1, a young soldier is forced to interrogate a detained student, provoking him a crisis of conscience accompanied by the memory of the corpses he piled up hours before, following the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre.
A pandemic has Esteban confined and separated from Alan. He spends his days contemplating the deserted city from his roof room, learning to play the guitar and trying to maintain their relationship through video calls, but the eternal seclusion will not allow the lovers to reunite.