Diego is an artist -- and that's all he feels he has in this life. He hates his job and people seem to treat him badly. Desperate and dejected -- Diego feels he isn't "Truly living" and must somehow make a move to regain meaning to his life. Reading about the great painter Paul Gauguin, Diego emulates the artist and leaves the comfort of his world for a place he can live cheaply and paint full time. His destination -- Juarez Mexico. But dreams can come at a price and Diego is forced to come to terms with what "truly living" means when one has to survive and escape with one's own life.

After her mother’s death, Amalia learns that her husband is having an affair. But when he mysteriously dies a few days later, the young widow, obsessed by her late husband’s mistress, succumbs to bloodthirsty madness.

What’s happening in the mysterious facility in the New Mexico desert? In spite of the apparent risk, a young and ambitious news reporter jumps at the opportunity to investigate why people are disappearing.

Barlam (Omar Rodriguez-Lopez) struggles to find himself as he bags groceries, has a semi-incestuous relationship with his sister and attempts to understand his parents' long-ago divorce. Events spiral out of control when he becomes obsessed with a boy who looks like him. Rodriguez-Lopez, a songwriter/guitarist for rock band The Mars Volta, writes and directs this drama that had its North American premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.