خلاصه داستان : یک دختر 11 ساله و مادرش در تلاش برای ادامه زندگی در بزرگترین محل دفن زباله نیکاراگوئه از هم جدا می شوند.

Nicaragua, today. Eleven-year-old María lives with her mother Lilibeth on the edge of an immense rubbish dump. Their future depends on selling a litter of purebred puppies to a local gang member. When the deal falls through, Lilibeth has to move to the outskirts of the city and leave María to work at a recycling factory. The days go by with no sign of her mother's return. María feels abandoned, confused and angry. One night she meets Tadeo, a kind and romantic boy determined to help her find her mother.

خلاصه داستان : بازگویی غیرمتعارف زندگی ویلیام واکر، رهبر مزدور آمریکایی قرن نوزدهمی که رئیس جمهور نیکاراگوئه شد.

William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.