Cumbia for the Dead

During Christmas Eve, Dr. Tere tries to get to her daughter's house for dinner, but her plans are frustrated by numerous insufferable patients and an unexpected stomachache.

To fullfill his responsibilities or defying his brother and embarking on a small three-wheeled adventure-that's the dilemma for a 10-year-old boy on a lonely coast in Mexico.

In a coastal town on the Gulf of Mexico lives the insubordinate Daniel, the owner of a small motel. We get to know him through his grandson’s eyes, who decides to use the very same VHS camera that Daniel once used to record him as a child. Through this role reversal, the camera documents Daniel’s daily life as a motel owner in a candid, effortless, yet humorous manner, gradually unveiling his larger-than-life personality and his somewhat tumultuous relationship with his wife, Lourdes.

In a small high school, Benito, the lonely physics teacher, falls madly in love with Lola, the new substitute biology teacher. Benito asks Gonzalo, the grumpy old music teacher, to help him teach him a song to sing as a serenade at the end-of-year fair.

Tinskani mourns the death of his friend and mentor, Salvador. His partner, Citlali, urges him to attend the funeral with her, but Tinskani is haunted by the photograph of his friend's corpse. He'd rather wander through the town’s carnival, camera in hand, seeking to replace that ghostly portrait with new ones.

Jesús, a lonely elderly (interpreted by Jesús, the great-uncle of the director), discovers that his brother, whom he hasn't seen in twenty years, is sick and nearing death. To make amends for the mistakes of his past, he will have to initiate an adventure against Mexican bureaucracy.