Paloma Robles

L'action se déroule dans l'immeuble résidentiel "Chihuahua" du quartier de Tlatelolco, à Mexico, donnant sur la place des Trois-Cultures. Le matin du 2 octobre 1968, une famille de classe moyenne mexicaine prend son petit déjeuner : le père, fonctionnaire autoritaire, la mère de famille, femme au foyer, le grand-père, vétéran de la révolution mexicaine et nostalgique d'une époque où la jeunesse n'était pas pervertie, et les quatre enfants. Pendant que le plus jeune, Carlitos, ne pense qu'à s'amuser, et la sœur cadette à étudier, les deux ainés entament une discussion passionnée sur le mouvement étudiant qui est en pleine effervescence : à dix jours des Jeux olympiques, ils réclament la liberté d'expression et la diversité politique. Contre l'avis de leur père, les deux étudiants assisteront au meeting qui se tient le soir même sur la place.

The movie tells the story of four beautifull and young girls: María, Pilar, Patricia and Virginia. They all work at the bingo and while they sell bingo cars they fill the room with smiles, happyness and excitement. But not all in their lifes is a game. They have all type of problems and dificult situations at work: the harassment of men, the quirks of the players ... but by the end love will win, as well as the joy of life and optimism.

A group of women take the law in their own hands after a friend has been raped and killed by some masked men.

After being in a comma for 20 year, Lauro (Retes) wakes up in a very different Mexico than the one he lived on. Ideas, hopes, ways-of-life and customs have changed, and Mexicans of the nineties are strangers for a man sleeping since 1971. Lauro will have to deal with the changes brought by the History, and will have to accept that the future is never as we imagined it when we were young.

This film is a story, testimony and documentation of the forced disappearance of 43 student teachers, which exposes the criminal complicity between the police and military authorities, between the political and economic elites and criminal organizations in Mexico, which appear to be different forces, but respond to similar interests.