Writing
Directed by Juan Ortega and set in 19th Century Victorian England, a struggling single woman of the noble class , named Juana Champion (played by actress Andrea Palma), has absolutely no marriage prospects. After finally resigning herself to becoming a Spinster or "Old Maid", she decides to go live with her very wealthy Aunt, none other than the Dutchess of Meldrum. Not long after her arrival, she quickly becomes infatuated with a charming, good-looking and talented painter named Garth, who works for her prim and proper Aunt. Although there is a mutual attraction between them from the start, Garth does not truly fall in love with Juana until he hears her sing a wonderful song called "The Rosary".
Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.
1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.
The days go by dizzyingly for the girls who work at the cabaret ´El ParaĂso´. However, on New Year's Eve, in the heat of the glasses and cigarette smoke, they narrate their hapless destinies
A beautiful young woman, adopted as a child by a man, falls in love with her stepfather and wants to conceive a child with him.
Friends, co-workers and clients reminisce about a recently-deceased sex-worker.
Widower wants to remarry, but his adult children are slow to warm to his new wife. One daughter in particular tries very hard to discredit her in his eyes.
