Nana
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a colonial city of Mexico.
A group of beings permeated by the lack of love, guilt, pain and a desire for revenge, meet on the day of a storm at a cantina in the mythical town of Parián, a place where all roads and all destinies converge. There they find consolation for their woes in mezcal and in the distress of the others.
Sra. Rosas
Nanny
Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) foi um dos principais nomes da história artística do México. Conceituada e aclamada como pintora, ele teve um agitado casamento aberto com Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), seu companheiro também nas artes, e ainda um controverso caso com o político Leon Trostky (Geoffrey Rush), além de várias outras mulheres.
Chosen Grandmother
Jerry Welbach é um gângster atrapalhado que recebe dois ultimatos de uma vez só. O primeiro vem de seu chefe mafioso, que quer que ele vá ao México para recuperar uma pistola antiga e inestimável. Já o segundo vem de sua namorada Samantha, que exige que ele rompa sua associação com a máfia. Entre perder a vida ou a namorada, Jerry resolve ir ao México, ainda mais depois de saber que Samantha será mantida refém pelos mafiosos até que ele retorne com a lendária pistola.
Abuela Marta
Filmmaker Ernesto Rimoch looks at the potent combination of love and ambition in this film about a couple who's so happy their daughter is marrying into a rich clan that they throw the best wedding ever, even if they can't afford it. When the father (Damián Alcázar) loses the money to pay for the musician, mayhem ensues. The film itself is made to look like a videotaping of the wedding, revealing who's responsible for the crime.
Widow in Stands
When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout, Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska. Soon, the Bronx Bombers put a $55 million contract on the table—provided a psychiatrist can affirm Nebraska's mental stability.
Dona
Um homem enfrenta um milionário, que tem a intenção de vender uma terra que pertencente a floresta tropical brasileira.
Hotel Proprietress
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
Mamá Rosita
A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.
Doña Iris
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.
