Using text from Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes and ancient Aztec and Mayan poetry, viewers are lead on a visual journey through this country's rich and varied past and present. Stunning images and a dramatic musical score by Daniel Valdez create a vivid, insightful portrait of the Mexican people and their culture

Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!

A sewing factory owner of Lebanese descent rapes a female worker, kills his homosexual partner to frame him for embezzlement, and murders a woman he falls in love with because she is Mexican and he does not want to mix their bloodlines. A detective follows his trail and, just as he has enough evidence to prove his guilt, the 1985 earthquake strikes and he dies.

A young and innocent girl is betrayed by the man whom she loves and has to become a prostitute because her family rejects her.

Successful fashiondesigner D'Maurice seduces married women while he pretends to be gay in order to avoid arousing suspicion among his clientele's husbands

A man becomes more and more infatuated with his childhood sweetheart leading to a haunting encounter with horror.

Damiana, a girl who has grown up with her grandfather and a friend, is discovered by photographer and launched as supermodel.

A new recruit rises through the ranks of Pancho Villa's army as his leadership skills become apparent.