片名是指一名西班牙远征队的队长，影片根据他留下的回忆录改编，颇有反殖民主义色彩。1528年，他率领的船只在佛罗里达外海触礁，船上600多人遇难，只剩两三人。上岸后遭遇当地印第安部落，遭囚禁，后被释放，后来的八年里他逐渐学会了他们的文化和习俗。当别的远征队到来并试图抓印第安人当奴隶时，他必须面对痛苦的选择。

Mexican film of 1991

A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the question 'Where are the singers from?'

A naïve rookie in the Mexican highway patrol must adapt in order to survive as he contends with widespread corruption, dangerous drug runners and the consequences of his often morally gray actions.

The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.