Cristina Rivera

A man lives in a place in Mexico where violence takes over his neighborhood. Soon, he discovers that he can make a difference.

José, a taxi driver in Mexico City, loses his temper at the slightest thing. After causing a lot of trouble over a woman who doesn´t love him, he tries to take his own life. However, saved by a stranger, José learns his lesson and changes. He sets out to show the world and the woman he loves that he is not whom he used to be.

Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.