Tere, the owner of a famous restaurant in Mexico City, loses her passion for cooking after a tragic death in the family. Beatrix, the restaurant"s ambitious manager, is forced to to hire a Cordon Bleu chef educated in France in order to salvage the business. In this charming film about food, family, and friendship, director Jordi Mariscal instills a sense of vitality and hope in the lives of characters on the verge of emotional collapse.

Jailed for murder, kidnapping, revolution, and con-artistry, four female inmates are brought together by a beauty pageant held inside a prison in Medellín, Colombia. The week-long pageant transforms the prison into colorful and controlled mayhem through which the filmmaker explores the contestants’ brutal and tragic pasts. In this fascinating documentary, themes of innocence and femininity are turned on their heads and the criminal, for a day, becomes queen.