Luis G. Basurto

La vida difícil de una mujer fácil

Friends, co-workers and clients reminisce about a recently-deceased sex-worker.

To Each His Own Life

The days go by dizzyingly for the girls who work at the cabaret ´El Paraíso´. However, on New Year's Eve, in the heat of the glasses and cigarette smoke, they narrate their hapless destinies

La estrella vacía

Mourners share their memories of a dead film-star at her wake, a la Citizen Kane. Only melodrama.

Ash Wednesday

1913: A young woman is raped by a priest and turns away from the Church as a result of the experience. 1924: She now is the owner of an expensive brothel, and she plays a small role on both sides of the Cristero Uprising, when foreign-born clergy were deported from Mexico.

La mujer legítima

Widower wants to remarry, but his adult children are slow to warm to his new wife. One daughter in particular tries very hard to discredit her in his eyes.