Héctor Suárez

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

Pedro is a single man in his forties who likes to party, has no children and lives at night. Everything changes when he meets Alin. She mentions to him that she is looking for her dad and that there is a high probability that it is him.

A young model with no money or work drifts through a harsh world tries to build a more stable life while her new relationship becomes increasingly complicated.

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.

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.

Agapito, leader of the revolutionary movement of his state, comes to a town, kills all the federales, and gets a girl who was promised to him for his heroic deeds.

An undercover policewoman tracks seven escaped convicts to the deserted island where they've set up a camp.

An academic tags along among a crew of rowdy delivery-truck drivers, taking notes on their colorful and idiomatic use of language.