Raul, un paysan déplacé par la violence, vit désormais à un carrefour de Bogota. Épris de liberté et aliéné par la drogue, il s’entête à vouloir contrôler la durée du feu rouge pour que vendeurs ambulants, acrobates ou handicapés aient le temps de mendier. Les feux de signalisation sont pour ces hommes leur vie et leur tombe. Au milieu du délire et de la fantaisie, le désespoir se transforme en un hymne à l'anarchie.
Ignacio Carrillo (Marciano Martínez) is a vallenato singer from Majagual, Sucre, who decides, after his wife's sudden death, to stop playing and return his accordion, which is said to be cursed, to his master. He is joined by Fermín Morales (Yull Núñez), a teenage boy who admires Ignacio and wishes to become a juglar like him. Carrillo reluctantly accepts, given his loneliness. On Ash Wednesday 1968, Carrillo, Morales and their donkey start a journey throughout several towns in the Caribbean region in Northern Colombia, until Taroa (a small caserío in Uribia jurisdiction), in La Guajira desert, where Carrillo's maestro supposedly lives. During their journey, Carrillo participates in the first version of the Vallenato Legend Festival in Valledupar.
Le film est une adaptation cinématographique du roman homonyme de l'écrivain colombien Jorge Franco Ramos, publié en 2002. Deux amoureux, Marlon et Reina, décident de quitter la Colombie pour les États-Unis. Mais leur voyage en tant que clandestins leur réserve de mauvaises surprises.
The movie, based on a book by Jorge Franco, deals with the life of a beautiful woman involved with the subculture of sicarios, the motorcycle-riding hitmen of the slums of Medellín, Colombia, in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Rosario, a dangerous woman who was molested and raped as a child, and now claiming to be owned by no man, lives a life on the edge while trying to come to terms with her past and the men in her life, not making the best choices along the way.
Mañe habite les quartiers pauvres de Bogota. Il traverse une période difficile après avoir perdu l'utilisation de ses jambes. Mane ne parvient plus à retrouver du travail et à payer son loyer. Alors que sa situation semble désespérée, il rencontre un personnage étrange qui arpente les rues de la cité en portant des gens sur son dos pour 500 pesos (20 centimes d'euros). Mane va retrouver espoir en se liant d'amitié avec le mystérieux porteur.
Fernando (Germán Jaramillo) meets Alexis (Anderson Ballesteros), a handsome gay youth, at a party of one of his old friends and immediately falls for him. The two begin a relationship which, apart from the sex, consists mainly in Fernando telling Alexis how pastoral the city was when he left, while Alexis explains to Fernando the ins and outs of everyday robbery, violence, and shootings. Even though Fernando has come home to die, his sarcastic worldview is mellowed somewhat by his relationship with Alexis.
Le film retrace les événements autour des fêtes de Noël vécus par Monica, fille de treize ans qui vend des roses dans la ville de Medellin. Après la mort de sa mère, Monica fuit à la rue et se jette dans un monde criminel de drogue, d'alcool et de prostitution, gagnant sa vie comme marchande de roses avec ses amies. La veille de Noël, un ivre lui offre une montre. Reconnaissante et y soupçonnant quelque don du ciel, elle l'utilise tous les jours -- ignorant, cependant, que le colifichet tramera les circonstances qui finiront par mettre fin à sa vie.
La tía Cato, chanteuse de Lumbalú et descendante directe de Catalina Luango de Angola, raconte l'histoire de son ancêtre, des Lumbalú et des Kuagros. lElle explique également l'organisation sociale des habitants de Palenque.
The film starts with news reporter Jose Antonio Pupo (played by Carlos Vives) interviewing a man after the movie events had taken place. This gentleman who is also a tenant reveals to the journalist how the material house where the tenants lived for so many years was taken to a different place by rudimentary but ingenious means.The man's story entangles with the depiction of the events.
Leon Maria Lozano is a humble worker and a Colombian Conservative Party member living in Tulua, Colombia, in a time where liberals rule following the close 1946 presidential election. For his activism he is discriminated against by the majority of people except by Gertrude Potes, a senior military liberal and a few other liberals.