The final story, El Chivo y Maru, follows El Chivo, a vagrant and former revolutionary guerrilla who now acts as a gun for hire. This leads to a complication of her injuries, the amputation of her leg and the end of her modelling career. Confined to a wheelchair, Valeria gets increasingly anxious about Richie’s safety and her own helpless predicament, and upon hearing the dog’s distress she makes a futile attempt to prise up the floorboards to rescue him. Indeed, the broken floorboards in their expensive apartment may symbolise the complexities of Mexican society, suggesting that even the most privileged have been affected by cultural and political instability.

To make matters worse, Valeria’s dog Richie gets trapped after falling through a hole in the floorboards. After the accident Valeria suffers a serious leg injury, putting her new modelling contract in jeopardy. In the second story, Daniel y Valeria, Daniel, a successful middle-aged magazine publisher, leaves his wife and family to live in a new apartment with supermodel Valeria, who we recognise as one of the victims of the crash in the opening sequence. In a fit of rage Octavio stabs Jaricho in retaliation, which results in a return to the car chase and subsequent crash the film opens with. Octavio enters Cofi into the agreed fight but, after seemingly getting the better of his opponent, Cofi is shot by Jaricho. After agreeing to one last big-money fight Octavia realises that Susana has betrayed him by stealing the money he had saved for their new life together. Cofi becomes a successful prize-fighter himself and makes a substantial amount of money for Octavio. After Cofi, the family Rottweiler, kills a prize-fighting dog belonging to El Jaricho, a violent street thug, Octavio is forced to enter Cofi into a number of illegal dogfights. Upon discovering that Susana has yet again become pregnant Octavio vows to protect her from his abusive brother, Ramiro, and they soon begin a love affair. Octavio is infatuated with his teenage sister-in-law Susana, who, along with Octavio’s mother, brother and Susana’s baby son, live together in a crowded apartment. The first story, Octavio y Susana, focuses on characters from the Mexican lower class. After the tragic crash which occurs in the opening scene the film is divided into three parts three separate stories edited together, each dealing with characters from different social backgrounds.

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