Marcos, a prosthetic creator with a traumatic past, finds a corpse in his laboratory. While deciding what to do with the corpse he will have to juggle his strange family life, a zombie movie, the possibility of new love and creating the perfect prosthesis for a very special client.
Junior Diaz
The Díaz are an influential family who control much of the poultry industry in the island. Arcadio is the family patriarch, an authoritative and conservative man who rules over his family's destiny as he does over the chickens on his farm. Teresa, his eldest, left home during her college years to become an astrophysicist against her father's wishes. Now, after a 7-year absence, she returns home for a few weeks in order to reveal a secret long kept from her family and to invite them to her wedding with Daniela. But, once back, her intentions turn to dust when she finds herself trapped in the family's old habit of lying. No one in the family is as they seem, nor are they willing to unveil their true selves. Within this world of half-truths, Teresa encounters Andrés, her nephew, a boy with Asperger's Syndrome who shares her passion for the stars.
Jose
Angélica has spent her whole life escaping from her mixed racial identity, but a family crisis forces her to return to Puerto Rico and rethink her life.
Teenager Carmín lives in a mountainous village in the center of Puerto Rico with her tough and conservative grandmother. Her mother left for the US without her. The arrival of her father, after long years in prison, eases Carmín’s profound sadness. The relationship with him, however, brings its own ambiguousness and complexities and as Carmín moves into womanhood this causes great confusion, mostly for her.
Amalia is extremely shy, keeping her from socializing with people around her. The music that her neighobr interprets is her way of relaxation. An event brings the threat that the piano will be gone, putting at risk her intimate space of security.
Abandoned siblings Charlie, Pablo, Tito, and Marla live in a deteriorated city apartment that becomes their magical sanctuary. The landlord is unaware of their existence and tries to sell the apartment. But each time he shows the apartment, the children have done everything in their power to prevent the sale.
Samuel
Henry is an introverted young artist who, seeking to escape the banality and violence of urban life, begins to blur the distinction between fantasy and reality.
Enrique Oltuski
1956 год. Латинская Америка кипит страстями — любовными и революционными. Для свержения диктаторского режима Фульхенсио Батисты лидер повстанцев Фидель Кастро собирает на Кубинском побережье армию. В знаменитый революционный отряд «М-26—7» вступает врач-кардиолог из Аргентины Эрнесто Гевара. В горячей борьбе за свободу он завоевывает любовь своих соратников, а вскоре и всего кубинского народа, давшему ему новое имя «Че», по-испански «друг».
Carlos (segment "En la Guagua")
A three-part look at the ironies of love, with stories that involve a young boy, a hostage situation, and a divorced elderly couple caught in a love triangle.
An operator at a mobile pager company has her life turned upside down by a seemingly senseless abduction.
Nick
This docu-drama deals with the lives of two soldiers from Puerto Rico enlisted to fight during the Vietnam conflict. Based on a real-life incident, the movie relates the young soldiers' ambiguity about the war and the tragic consequences their plight holds for them, as well as their families.
Reminiscent of Kafka's Die Verwandlung, the life of a Puerto Rican family changes as they wake up one morning and find out that their oldest son and sole economic income has suffered a mutation and is transformed into a coqui.