Actor: Myriam Bravo

Nudo Mixteco

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories intersect.

Shame

On their way back home from a baseball academy’s tryouts, Pedro and Lucio are taken hostage and turned over to a criminal group. The teenage friends are forced to fight each other to death; Pedro defeats Lucio and manages to escape. Pedro receives help and refuge with Lucio’s family and he witnesses the family’s collapse and pain. Pedro is tormented with guilt and fear, he cannot tell his friend’s family the truth.

The Gasoline Thieves

Lalo is a fourteen year old teenager who, from an naive approach, gets involved in the underground world of the gas theft mafia while he's trying to make money to buy a gift for Ana and win her heart.

The Letter

A young woman returns to her rural Mexican village after a few years away to find out if her first love can be revived.

The Doldrums or How to Cure Sadness

The tiricia is an illness of the soul when the heart is saddened. A story of three generations afflicted with being tiricientas: Ita, Justa and Alicia – grandmother, mother and daughter – who have at different times suffered, tolerated and allowed abuse, dragging on the disease. Alicia decides to break the cycle, eradicating it for future generations.

An Incomprehensible Burst of Love

One morning Aymé suffers the abandonment of her partner. That same day, she decides to meet again with Laura, her best friend, whom she has not seen during the years of their relationship. After letting off steam with Laura over coffee, they both go out that night to try to have fun. Aymé does not imagine that despite her pain that night she will discover something indescribable and that she had never felt before. The next day Aymé feels in her solitude, a glow of incomprehensible love.