By Day and by Night

Marcela is a young woman who lives in Mexico City, where she makes her living teaching ballroom dancing. Everything seems to be fine in her little world: she is hoping to start her own dance academy and has romantic plans. However, one day she finds out that something strange is happening at her parents house: an underground and latent discomfort grows week by week. Gloria, her mother, seems absent, talking about strange events far from her daily routine and experiencing memory lapses. Almost at the same time, Nacho, Marcela's father, loses his job and, with it, his self esteem. Marcela forgets about her own needs choosing instead to concentrate on her parents troubles and reestablishing family harmony.

In recent years it has become the handiest character of Mexican cinema: the Chilango fleeing the capital to the province in search of something. But this case is different because the trip is used as an excuse to illustrate, through documentary techniques, the deep contrasts of Mexican society. Tired of the city, Javier goes to visit his aunt, an eccentric woman with quite radical ideas, who lives isolated from the world in a ranch in Querétaro. Javier works as a laborer for an Argentinean foreman, with whom he shares a few passions. His life begins to change.

Fragments of a meteor crash in Mexico and United States. Thirteen stories in different spaces and times happen in places of collisions .

Ana, a former actress, gets the chance to reunite herself with a Ophelia, a character she played years back, when she met and fell for the man who is her husband now. However, at this point, her marriage is facing a difficult time. What keeps them together is their 6 year old son. Ana, by becoming Ophelia once again and under these circumstances she suffers a personality split which leads her to an extreme and life changing juncture, something she has never faced before.

Iliteracy today seems to be a small problem globally, but it is hell for the individual illiterate that struggles alone in a hyper communicative era.

Patricio’s (Bruno Bichir) wife has asked for a divorce, he can’t see his daughter and he has lost millions of dollars. Talk about a streak of bad luck! His eccentric friend offers him a room in a mansion that houses resident artists. There he meets Natalia (Karla Coronado), a young woman in charge of the mansion’s organic garden, with whom he establishes a relationship. A video installation about nuclear war will help him find his way again.

Erick travels with his father to the beach after the death of his mother; in that place he will find a sea shell, through which he will hear her voice.

David, a successful therapist, is the creator of a never-before-used method in modern psychology: a device that allows him to alter the most painful memories of his patients. His wife, Lucia, is the victim of a strange disease that will shortly end her life. The solution for David's plight appears in the shape of Sofia, a patient of David's who asks him to use his machine to rewrite her entire life.