Luis G. Basurto

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

The days go by dizzyingly for the girls who work at the cabaret ´El Paraíso´. However, on New Year's Eve, in the heat of the glasses and cigarette smoke, they narrate their hapless destinies

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.

Friends, co-workers and clients reminisce about a recently-deceased sex-worker.

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.

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.