Trying to get out of work so they can go to a party, two video store employees make up a fake religious holiday called “National Mourning Day.” Their boss believes them, but takes the holiday a little too seriously.
After constant arguments with his parents and after being left by the girl who dumped him for an engineer, Mike leaves university and starts managing a laundry hoping to find himself and escape from his life.
By uncovering a world thought only to exist in his imagination, Ethan brings the love of his life back from the dead in order to clear her name and expose the truth behind her apparent suicide.
Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares.
A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment.