In 1931, following the success of the film Battleship Potemkin, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, to shoot a new film. Freshly rejected by Hollywood, Eisenstein soon falls under Mexico’s spell. Chaperoned by his guide Palomino Cañedo, the director opens up to his suppressed fears as he embraces a new world of sensual pleasures and possibilities that will shape the future of his art.
Benigno Cruz is haunted by his violent past as the outlaw formerly known as “Catire”. Seeking for redemption while carrying on his shoulders his late wife’s murder by his enemies, Benigno is forced to face his estranged adult children and admit in spite of the blame, pain and blood shed, they still are a family.
In a fishing community of Nicaragua divers are getting sick. They descended to the sea looking for lobster and they returned to the surface with their bodies paralyzed. There is no explanation for a disease never before seen in the community, the old and wise men spoke out to alert that divers had raised the wrath of the mermaid.
