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Around a campfire in the Ngäbere language, Major Francisco Rodríguez tells the Ngäbe-Buglé community of La Casona the mythical story of "Los gigantes". His words merge with the recreation of the story, starring three women from different generations and some other people from that indigenous community, which inhabits the border territory between Costa Rica and Panama.
An unemployed journalist during her quarantine finds a job option on the cam girl platforms, but a phone call from her daughter will make her reconsider that decision.
Verónica is driven by a need to help people. When a cab she is riding in hits street kid Tato, she immediately brings him home and tends to his injuries. Her roommate Greta thinks Tato is trouble, but Verónica only sees someone in need of a hand.
A group of colorful characters carry a mirror through the streets of San José and leave it in the Central Park of the city. A crowd moves around the mirror. A passerby shouts in front of his own image: "be attentive to what is coming!" The mirror reflects, transforms and deforms reality. Produces stories and mirages.
A girl regularly leaves food at the door of her grandfather's room, who is ill. One day the grandfather does not open the door. Then the girl decides to enter.
A boat crossing the Caribbean Sea. On board, Willem Dafoe opens a briefcase that casts a golden glow on Christopher Walken's face. In a fit of ambition, Walken snatches up a swordfish and plunges it into Dafoe's abdomen, causing him to writhe in pain. In his death throes, Dafoe grabs another swordfish and lops off Walken's head. As he descends into the deep sea, Walken's head will discover that ambition always knocks twice.
San José of Costa Rica, beginning of the XXI century. A man with the appearance of an office worker travels alone in a train car. He accompanies his loneliness with an old tie until a woman in a yellow dress sits in front of him. Then a game full of curiosity, of small and unexpected disagreements, of closeness and silences begins between the two.
Francisco Coto was born in Alajuela in July 1924. A century later, he recalls some of his photographs in the studio he founded decades ago. Photographs like those that bring to the present the eruptions of the Irazú volcano, which began in March 1963, or the visit of John F. Kennedy during that same year, allowing us to see Costa Rica's recent history through different eyes.
Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl.
Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a helping hand to build her house and ultimately recover her own sense of self.