Documents the story of Maya women of Guatemala and their role in the human rights struggle. Focuses on three women whose lives have been shattered by Guatemala's genocidal civil war.

This film shows that while motherhood is differently experienced across social, racial and classed locations, women share gender constraints in their lives.

• [Pt. 1]. Bolivia, la coca, alimento de los pobres
• [pt. 2]. Brasil, sacredotistas, sambistas y multatas de Brasil
• [pt. 3]. Chilenas, del drama a la Esperanza
• [pt. 4]. Cuba, las hijas de Fidel
• [pt. 5]. Dominicanas
• [pt. 6]. Guatemala silenciada
• [pt. 7]. México, la rebelión de las Lloronas
• [pt. 8]. Ecuador, la mujer indigena
• [pt. 9.] Nicaragua, del rojo al Violeta
• [pt. 10]. Perú, la colera del Hambre
• [pt. 11]. Ser madre en América latina
• [pt. 12]. Puerto Rico, el paraíso invadido
• [pt. 13]. Venezuela, del siglo 21 a la prehistoria.

This series looks at Latin America through its women, a drastic change from the usual Latin American protagonists. The women in these programs come from all walks of life: women who transport drugs across borders for their men, mothers searching for their disappeared sons and lovers, as well as women teachers, engineers, ministers, and political leaders.

This is a documentary about the life of Paulina, a middle-aged maid from Mexico living in the US. She returns to the village of her parents to confront them and other town elders about the cycle of abuse she was subjected to as a child all because of her mother's rash interpretation of an innocent bathing accident.