General Enrique Monteverde manages to evade his conviction as responsible for the Mayan genocide, unleashing popular anger. Freed of the charges, he is trapped in his mansion, surrounded by the crowd of the living and the dead. At night, the elderly and ailing Monteverde begins to hear a woman crying. His wife and daughter think they are signs of Alzheimer's, unaware that the spirit of La Llorona has arrived and is ready to take justice into his own hands.

Max and Leo are 8 and 5 years old, they have just immigrated to the United States with their mother, Lucia. Their days are spent inside a tiny apartment, while they wait for their mother to return from work, they cling to the hope of traveling to Disneyland.

Hector returns from a difficult migration of many years. With a possessive mother, a young wife who despises him for leaving home and a young son who does not know him, Hector tries to adapt, proposing to live as before, making up for lost time, but since he left everything has changed. Neither Hector nor his community are the same.