The Leading Actor

Story of six interwoven narratives in Mexico City, exploring the human condition against intermittent rain. With each encounter, the characters experience a moment of absurdity, brightness, or strangeness that reveals their true selves.

Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery.

A young boy on a mission to collect what he believes to be his father’s remains gets sucked into the underbelly of the migrant industry in Mexico.

After crashing the family car, Juan encounters a cast of eccentric and fantastic characters who each try to help. But what begins as a mundane adventure quickly becomes a transformative journey exploring issues of death, family, love and sex.

Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden from military repression in Argentina. Ceci asks herself: what must she say? What should she really believe and do in order to deserve the love of her mother and others?

10-year-old Elisa, whose parents are about to lose their new car due to financial problems, plans a bank robbery.

Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares. Per the film's title, these characters pair off, finding unexpected hope and salvation in one another.

Ramona is 84, and she has announced that she is ready to die. While her family is making the preparations, however, she changes her mind.

Cecilia is seeking a new means of artistic expression. She doesn´t want to have children, they would hamper her development. An attempted robbery brings her together with Rafael, a 10 year old Chicano boy who can´t return to the USA. They inadvertently establish a mother-son relationship.

Marcos is a 65 years old artist. He works in a gas station, depressed and annoyed with his life because he has never been able to exhibit his paintings. One day, Luis a young thief who's 13 years old, enters to his house thinking it was empty. Luis is the only one who knows about Marcos art. Suddenly, a kind of friendship starts between Luis and Marcos. And both begin to find new answers about life and art.

Victor, a 37 year old hairstylist at Mexico, has a really standard routine: he works, plays domino, watches soccer and cleans his house. He also likes romantic music and old classic mexican movies. But suddenly, he has to break this routine and go to Rio the Janeiro.

A man travels to the Argentine north following the leads of a mythical pre-Columbian entity in charge of the relatives’ sorrow. The roads at night, the inns and the large salina of Zelarayán’s poem reject anthropological shortcuts and build up a mystery that is perhaps as formidable as the very bearer of sorrow.

Angeles (11) peddles candy on the street. David (50)works in a parking lot. David admits he’s going to suicide throwing himself from a building under construction. Angeles doesn’t try to talk him out of it; quite contrary, she decides to help his friend.

The dance of the cuartetos with Carlos Giménez, the people who love him, the people who do not love him, the joy of the meeting and the emptiness of a party finale.