Mama Cora, who is almost eighty years old, has three sons and a daughter. She lives with one of them, who has serious financial problems. The family meets one day to celebrate an anniversary meal, and that is when the problem arises: which of them will take care of her?

In a tiny rural village in Argentina, Rita Lopez, a pious yet insatiably competitive woman, discovers that staging a miracle could be her ticket to sainthood.

《荒蛮故事》是一部黑色喜剧，由6个独立的暴力复仇小故事构成。影片是一次对于人类失控行径的颠覆性创作，从怪异的幽默感，独特的画面和大胆的配乐，到对于身处绝境的普通人这一题材的偏爱，都可以清晰地看到南美鬼才导演达米安·斯兹弗隆与阿莫多瓦在创作方面的相似之处。不过，斯兹弗隆仍然通过这部影片发出了自己独特的声音：一场对于一个腐败成风、经济和社会严重不平等的社会的尖锐抨击。