Deep in the jungle, a group of Mexican gum workers crosses their path with Agnes, a mysterious Belizean woman. Her presence enlivens the fantasies and desires of those men, without knowing that they have woken up an ancient Mayan legend.
Ras is a graffiti artist from the city of Cali who works in construction, he works during the day and paints walls at night. One day he is caught stealing cans of paint from the construction site where he works, for which he is fired. With no money, he will look for Calvin, another popular urban artist. Both will circulate through the streets without a fixed destination, spreading their art to every corner.
Sal is an odyssey whose hero has no home to return to. His is a search for transcendence in a landscape that pits him against a harsh, impervious human reality. Heraldo is a man with no identity who comes to the desert asking about his father. In this dystopian land, the last refuge of desperados who have no place in the world, he finds himself asking if maybe he is one of them when a strange couple, Don Salo and his wife, take him in.
A wise old man embarks on his final journey, entering the Colombian jungle to find a place to die. But the paramilitary soldiers who control the area endanger his peaceful transition to the realm of the dead.
Napoleon buries his wife behind his house, located in an arid plain of distant mountains. He is an elderly peasant haunted by death and drought, with his wife he has just lost all hope of doing anything to stay alive. A neighbor boy offers him a chance to do something for his life and the lives of others. Napoleon must decide whether to heed the boy's call or put an end to it all.
Two filmmakers from different countries explore the memories of their mothers, to create a narrative fiction concerning the recovery of life.
Ricardo, Natalia's father, suffers from Parkinson's disease; in that condition he stopped producing Dopamine. Surviving a very strong family crisis, Natalia told them her sexual orientation. She does not understand why after being left-wing militants and fighting for equality and freedom, they could not accept her choice.
Belisario's wife is very sick, a healer comes to meet her and gives him the mission to climb the Andes mountains to bring back an object buried in the snow to try to save her.
Valeria arrives at her aunt's house in a big city to spend some time and starts working taking care of a small child. The only memory he has of home are some seeds that his mother sent to his aunt as a gift. Valeria is pregnant, and her family doesn't want anyone to find out.
Almost eight years ago the family of Marcela Gómez separated. His parents and younger sister emigrated to the United States and lived in Cali, Colombia. While reconstructing the history of her family through the home movies they sent her in the mail, Marcela questioned the phenomenon of third world migration to the great powers and how these powers assume an immigrant.
