Um jovem adolescente apaixonado por esportes e canto fica gravemente ferido em um acidente de motocicleta. A história gira em torno de seu choque com a forma como sua vida mudou e sua dificuldade em lidar com sua nova realidade. O menino, interpretado pelo cantor latino Luis Miguel aos 14 anos, canta várias canções do filme.
Tancredo, a poor man, is in love with a rich girl, who does not return his feelings. One day when she is bathing in a river, a flood sweeps her away and Tancredo is unable to save her. Mad with grief, he steals the sun. The gods call Apolinar to restore light to the earth, but he is obstructed by the magician of darkness, until by means of a telescope he is able to send a bag of light to Tancredo, now grown old. Tancredo goes to the seashore and opens the bag of light as an offering to his beloved, whereupon the sun returns to the earth.
In the late 1800's, Boris Karloff has discovered a way to use nuclear power. He creates a beam weapon and blows up a big rock. Outer space aliens are scared and one alien who looks a lot like James Cameron with a big fake nose only this one isn't fake lands and brings other aliens who take over the bodies of Karloff and his assistant. The assistant is a Jack the Ripper style killer who has done a few nasty murders which have riled the townsfolk. The body-snatched bodies become radioactive and start killing flowers and other stuff (but don't die themselves) and some stuff happens and in the end Karloff destroys the beam weapon equipment (and his lab and house), then the aliens leave and warn us that if anyone ever does it again there will be trouble.
During the Mexican Revolution, a hardened and rich lady landowner is overtaken by the violence of the times. Losing her land and house, she falls in love with a revolutionary leader that is killed by a sadistic and corrupt federal officer. She takes the revolutionary flag and leads a rampage of violence and destruction.
O impotente Fando e sua namorada paraplégica Lis buscam a cidade encantada de Tar, onde o êxtase espiritual os espera. A viagem extraordinária cheia de encontros estranhos os levará a escombros urbanos, desertos escaldantes, montanhas traiçoeiras e a seus próprios passados.