Virginia and Nacho, is a poor marriage, living precariously on their meager salaries, insufficient to support his child nine years of age. Until fortune smiles and Nacho wins a late model car. But sometimes it's better that luck will smile.
Acting
Leticia Perdigón and Alonso Echánove's raw, suffocating chemistry.
Direction
Montero's unflinching eye for working-class desperation.
Writing
Cruel irony that keeps twisting the knife.
Director
Rafael Montero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1990s Mexican cinema's 'crisis de la masculinidad' movement examining failed breadwinners.
Demián Bichir appears in an early role before his Hollywood breakthrough.
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