In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.
In a small zoo, the arrival of the hippopotamus Zafari is celebrated by neighbours of opposing social classes. Ana, Edgar and their son Bruno watch all the action from the windows of their decadent high-class building. Amidst a chaos of food, water and electricity shortages, the family has to solve everyday problems and the lack of basic needs while trying to find a solution to escape. Ana scavenges for food in the abandoned apartments, but strange noises in the dark corridors frighten her more and more. In a world that has become wild, Zafari is the only one who still has enough to eat.
Benigno Cruz is haunted by his violent past as the outlaw formerly known as “Catire”. Seeking for redemption while carrying on his shoulders his late wife’s murder by his enemies, Benigno is forced to face his estranged adult children and admit in spite of the blame, pain and blood shed, they still are a family.
After 20 years abroad, a Venezuelan woman finds her family's plantation occupied by ex-workers. In her quest for justice in a lawless environment, she unleashes her brutal side.
The plot revolves around four friends traversing time and space, encountering one another in various incarnations, settings, and social roles.
In a fishing community of Nicaragua divers are getting sick. They descended to the sea looking for lobster and they returned to the surface with their bodies paralyzed. There is no explanation for a disease never before seen in the community, the old and wise men spoke out to alert that divers had raised the wrath of the mermaid.
