El lugar sin límites

An interview with Chicano leader César Chávez, leader of the United Farm Workers labor union, who discusses the problems facing the Mexican population in certain states of the US. This is the struggle of a movement confronting social and economic pressure as it seeks to protect its own culture and identity from being uprooted.

Bored, “El Viejo” wanders the house, spying on his wife Beatriz. The fighting takes a toll and the balance is disturbed: Beatriz, knowing she’s under scrutiny, feels both desired and desirable. But she wants proof. One night she leaves home on an aimless walk with a single purpose: sex. Her return unleashes catastrophy. Dinorah, the maid, refuses to allow this audacity and takes a side.

Gabriel Lima has kept his wife and three children locked up in a house for 18 years, forbidding all contact with the outside world to prevent them from being corrupted. Despite such punishments, the family is obedient and works hard to produce the rat poison he sells on the street every day. Their tense domestic peace will shatter when Gabriel discovers his older children’s sexual awakening.