A sprawling, grey, miserable Mexico City is the background of the new film by Carlos Reygadas, who caused an international sensation with Japón.

Lovesick Marcos, a chauffeur, secretly desires Ana, the liberated daughter of the General for whom he works. The young woman prostitutes herself for her own pleasure and as a form of rebellion, in a high-end brothel to where Marcos regularly drives her. When he tells Ana that he kidnapped a child with his possessive wife, a bond of secrecy and intimacy is formed.

Marcos, plagued with self-loathing and remorse, becomes more and more adrift from his wife and finds himself wandering around the unforgiving city searching for redemption. Soon he's doing things he never dreamt of, including joining a mass pilgrimage to the Mexico City Basilica.

A difficult yet rewarding work, one which establishes its maker as one of the true visionaries of contemporary cinema. Edinburgh Film Festival

Reygadas' ambitious and visionary work is a tour-de-force interrogation of the deplorable hypocrisies of the world and the senseless unfairness of life, as personified in Mexico's struggling working class... that offers some of the most incredible images of Mexico City ever seen onscreen. - Toronto Film Festival