Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother2s grave site has been vandalized, Marie quickly returns to the isolated offshore island where her late mother is buried. When she arrives, she discovers that the island is closing for the offseason with the bridges raised until spring, leaving her stranded. With one strange interaction with the local townspeople after another, Marie soon realizes that something is not quite right in this small town....

After leaving a billion-dollar family business to raise her daughter, a single mother returns to crime when her daughter's life is threatened.

Ema finds out that she is pregnant the same day she travels to her grandmother's house to accompany her in her last days. There she must live with her mother, Julieta, a ranchera singer, charming and crazy about life with whom she does not get along well. Faced with the sadness of losing her grandmother and forced to share that loss with Julieta, Ema recognizes a new facet of her mother that helps her grow up, accept her own motherhood and celebrate...

Ofelia, a dreamy little girl, is uprooted to her new stepfather's military outpost. Powerless and lonely in a place of unfathomable cruelty, Ofelia lives out her own dark fable as she confronts monsters both otherworldly and human.

Gato lives with his teenage daughter Emma and a small group of people, including Sombra, on an isolated farm without telephones or internet. But Emma, tempted by curiosity, runs away into town one day to attend a carnival, and gets her hands on a mobile phone. After she uploads a video of herself to the internet, Emma is contacted by a mysterious woman named Celia who claims to be her long-lost mother. What follows is a mystical tale of family, identity--and...

Separated by time but united by sacrifice, four women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the fall of the Berlin Wall as they embark on journeys of self-discovery and find themselves to be living testaments to the power of maternal love.