Juliana Cuervos

Four very special couples fight with life to achieve their desires. Some are looking for respect and the right to love each other. Others face treason and hidden truths. Four stories full of humour, drama and passion. They are joined by a common space: they are inhabitants of "Central Park".

Roberto is a middle class working professional trying to survive hyperinflation amid the Venezuelan crisis while maintaining his unemployed mother. An argument breaks out when she asks him to buy flour for her birthday cake. In an effort to make amends, he resorts to the black market to buy the scarce food, but gets caught in the violent looting of a market.

On April 11th of 2002 a coup d'état against the venezuelan president Hugo Chávez Frías kept the country in a state of total uncertainty regarding his whereabouts, two days later he returned to power. This is a chronicle of those days.

Eugenia, 30, is torn between fulfilling or not a promise made 13 years ago to Luis, his brief and tragic teen love.

The film reproduces the historical moment when Cipriano Castro, then president of Venezuela, proclaimed: "The insolent plant of the foreigner has desecrated the sacred soil of the fatherland!" While the coasts were invaded by imperial forces in 1902.

1, 2 y 3 Mujeres addresses the issue of women and their relationship with their social and geographical environment from different perspectives and aesthetic proposals through the stories of Eloína, Rosario and Gregoria. Eloína shows the greatness and value of assuming certain positions in the role of mother. Rosario exposes the experience of candor to the woman in the context of loneliness and Gregoria shows weakness versus strength and impetus in decision making to guarantee emotional stability.

Eleven vignettes from the vision of different writers and directors who depict Venezuelan culture very subtly through different genres.

A young woman travels abroad trying to realize her dream of being a model, but there she is deceived and subjected to prostitution at the Cabaret Tango Bar, where she experiences the horrors as a victim of a sex trafficking network.

Rufino, a man of 71, is widowed and decides to return to the village where he met his wife. There is reunited with his landscapes and his friend Gaspar, a painter who has taken over a little orphan girl named Ana eight-year-E, Rufino who will be forced to remain under the same roof, despite its hostile coexistence . The loneliness of these characters are facing, beginning strokes to a new way to overcome abandonment.

Helena faces her sister in a tough battle for her mother's love. The enormous force of her blows make her "La Ruda", a promise of boxing that arouses admiration and envy.

Mykel, a 6 years old boy who wants to help his mother to resolve her financial problems, even when he does not know how. In a very naive way, Maykel, misunderstand a pamphlet he finds on the street, and thinks he has got the solution. Maykel and his brother Juan, star a children's game and bring their mother into it, making her to forget her financial issues.

Adolescent and from a modest neighborhood, Ana has spent her years in front of a sewing machine, working to support her two younger brothers and silently enduring the abuse of a pervert stepfather and an indifferent mother. Her hearing impairment has made marginalized her in a world that refuses to listen to her, becoming her in an object of use of who are around her. Unable to resign herself that her brothers will suffer the same fate, Ana decides to save them, embarking on a trip to freedom.