The daily life of a popular neighborhood in Bogota is interrupted by a man who threatens to commit suicide by jumping into the void. Echeverry, an old mariachi and Jacinto, a gambling addict, will bet the money they have on the man's decision.

Poor little rich girl, misunderstood by her family,, takes up with a very ghetto blind man in the slums of Cartagena.

A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.

Four men and two women illegaly board a cargo ship from Buenaventura, Colombia to New York. All their dreams and frustrations confronts them while they attempt not to be discovered by the ship crew. They all seek the "American Dream".