Una moneda en el aire

In this film, the renowned muralist Juan O'Gorman bequeaths us his vision of art and life, as well as aspects of his professional career. In the last year of his life, O'Gorman tells the camera all the reasons for his lucid pessimism, in relation to environmental disasters, consumerism in art, and the causes of war.

Recounts the union struggle of taxi drivers supported by the Communist Party.

The divorced university professor, Victoria, signs a letter of protest for the political disappeared that her students request, although she is not interested in politics. That afternoon his daughter, a twenty-year-old medical student, disappears. This event will change the vision of Victoria and her participation together with relatives of other political disappeared to obtain justice.

The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.

In trying to exercise his labor rights a worker is kidnapped by the police so that his employers can fire him without problem. Neither his family nor his companions understand the meaning of his effort or his sacrifice because of lack of communication.