Suffocated by debt, JJ, a young white trash woman from the United States, escapes from Los Angeles to Baja California, Mexico, in search of an old lover to save her from her tumultuous existence. She is accompanied by Esmeralda, a 14-year-old Mexican teenager who runs away from home and offers her a tempting sum of money if she agrees to take her to see her father. Always with the threat of being discovered, they embark on an adventure through the desert in which JJ's bad decisions will complicate things more and more; But, along the way, a special relationship will emerge between the two.

Emma, a girl just out of college is ousted from home by her parents, who consider her irresponsible. Andres is an unsuccessful musician who, being part of a powerful family, has trouble getting his father's approval. Both are a little lost and not knowing what to expect from life, but they know exactly what they do not want: let go of social expectations and never find their own way and identity.

After winning an award with his latest short film, Diego and his enthusiastic team decide to start a new adventure: filming his first feature film. It is 2009, one year prior to the commemoration of the centenary of the Mexican Revolution, so they decide to carry out the filming of a script published by the Mexican writer José Revueltas, entitled "Land and Freedom", which tells the odyssey of Emiliano Zapata and the revolutionaries of southern Mexico.