A fat woman attempts to lose weight in order to use her mother's wedding dress with the help of her evil sisters and needy fiancé.
When a woman visits a Chinese doctor, she discovers her pain is due to pent-up rage, and the only cure is to fully express herself, whatever may come.
Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.