Renato, Abel & Gabriela are a family torn apart by their emotions. For them, the longing for happiness and breaking free from their harsh realities seems punishable. Their individual choices will take its toll on the lives of others, bringing forth the fragile ties that bind them.
One day, while reading a comic about a secretary who falls in love with her boss, she dreams that she goes to work as a typist at the Churubusco Studies laboratory, where her boss entrusts her with a very important job.
Dani loves his girlfriend, Monica, but he is always late and has lost the expensive watch she gave him as a birthday present. Tired and disappointed by his lack of commitment, she breaks up with him. On the advice of his amateur psychologist friend, Elias, Dani sets off on an impossible quest to retrieve the watch, to prove his love to Monica and save their relationship.
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.
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.