A comedic drama featuring two couples and two old friends in Mexico City. Tomas visits Carlos and Ana, while Miguel and Andrea are joined by Maria. The presence of guests triggers lust, rejection, infidelities, reconciliation and other consequences.

René is determined to make changes in his life and learn to say no, but his neighbor manages to persuade him to look after her sick sister-in-law.

When their father decides to move to Europe, Javier and Manolo's comfortable lives are threatened because neither one of them has learned to be self-reliant.

A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution. by one of the most outstanding writers of the new feminist Mexican literature, it is at once a haunting novel of one woman's life and a powerful account of post-revolutionary Mexico from a female perspective.