Marc and Eudald have been in a stable relationship for six years. Their life seems to run smoothly but even though together they make a good team, Eudald’s increasing impatience to cement their relationship is starting to get to to Marc, who finds himself caught in an emotional deadlock.

A mother-daughter relationship is complicated by unprocessed grief and financial strife.

A man named Jacques Mornard arrives in Mexico in 1940, claiming to be a Belgian who is fleeing the war in Europe to join his girlfriend, one of refugee Leon Trotsky's secretaries. But nobody knows that in reality this conventional and cheerful young man is in fact an agent of the GPU (Soviet Secret Service) and has been sent to assassinate Trotsky.

Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies.

Sara has been alone all her life. She’s 22, has a baby, and wants to form a normal family with her young brother and the father of her child. Her own father, Manuel, decides to come back into their lives after years of absence and his release from prison. Sara knows he’s the main obstacle to her plans and she makes a difficult decision: to distance him from herself and her brother.

2006 film by Claudia Llosa