In the working-class outskirts of L.A., Jesús, an openly gay man recently released from prison after serving a nine-year sentence for a nonviolent drug offense, is determined to reclaim his life and reunite with his daughter.

An astronaut recreating Mars conditions in the US desert is saved by a couple of passing immigrants. A deadly negotiation ensues over the astronaut’s water, vital for both the astronaut’s humanity-saving mission and the immigrants’ hopes to survive their journey.

A love-obsessed woman becomes a martial-arts master in order to save the busboy at a local club from getting bullied by two Mexican wrestlers.

An orphan boy who is constantly being transferred from home to home, makes a wish to stay with his current foster parents. But on the Eve of Christmas, he may have to leave once again.