A comedy narrating the adventures of ten Puerto Ricans looking for a better life. The film centers on an airplane trip to New York during 1960's. It relates in a comical, yet poignant manner, the array of reasons each of the passengers has for leaving Puerto Rico and the challenges they face as suggested by the interactions of the Anglo crew and the passengers.
Film interpretation of the story of the writer Luis Rafael Sánchez bearing the same name. A man and his wife have lost various children. When he learns his wife is pregnant again, he decides to murder her, fearing they would lose another child.
Inspired by Luis Rafael Sánchez's play of the same name, the film is structured on the reminiscences of the protagonist, Angela, as she wakes up and is mortified by her immediate surroundings. Her reminiscences are nonlinear and oscillate between her past and her present situation.
