In the spring of 1980, Esther Jochmann, a young Austrian woman, flies to San Salvador. Her husband, a journalist, has been killed. She has to identify his corpse so that the authorities will allow it to be transferred to Europe. She learns that Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was also a victim of an assassination, had granted a taped interview to her husband. Padre Manuel hands the tape over to her. Esther accompanies the Padre and John, an American reporter, who are trying to find the murderers.

Owner of an auto repair shop deals with marital problems and neighborhood gangsters running stolen cars and contraband electronics.

Minister with four virgin daughters inherits a bordello. The land contains a silver mine and the corrupt sheriff tries to force them to leave.

Carrying his son on his back, a man travels from place to place looking for a doctor to treat the sick boy. As they journey, the indio father tells the boy stories to keep him distracted. These stories reveal the life of native peoples in Mexico, both in the countryside and in cities, and they shed light on characteristic beliefs and rituals.

Frontier boy orphaned after a military actiion,, escapes with his horse into Mexico and has adventures.

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Two blind children have bonded deeply in their special-ed classroom. The sight of one of them is restored with an operation.

Robinson Crusoe teaches children Viernes the principles of the white man's culture and build a raft to leave the island to calling "of despair". Shortly before finishing rescue a white men and the father Friday when they will be slaughtered by cannibals. Then comes a ship taken by the foreman, who plans to leave the island to the loyal crew. Robinson helps the crew.

A man dies of a heart attack and his wife hides the body in order to continue collecting pension.

The classic Daniel Defoe tale as told by a narrating tiger that witnesses castaway Robinson Crusoe's struggles to survive the man-eating cannibals on the tropical island

Tired of the monotony of her work, Mary O'Hara, executive of an important American company, travels to Acapulco for a few days in search of love and adventure. On the beach, her high hopes fade, since she only meets unscrupulous playboys. She declines all offers she gets until she meets Pancho el Golfo, a young man who makes a living as he can.

A movie divided in two segments, the first "La puerta" (The Door) is about a high society gathering in which a door inside the mansion leads to a bizarre corridor where a naked and menacing human figure appears. The second "La mujer del carnicero" (The Butcher's Wife) is set during the Mexican revolution and is about horrifying hallucinations felt by a lieutenant after committing a murder.

Two little poor kids, who work selling chewing gum in the streets, must face the true nature of the horror surrounding them