For various reasons, a group of Nahua migrants from the Huasteca area of Hidalgo state go to the city of Guadalajara, where they now live. This has a great social, cultural and economic impact on Santa Cruz, their community of origin. Several stories are found within this Nahua migration: a teenager who finishes junior high school and drops out to go work in Guadalajara; an experienced woman migrant who has done well in business and now plans to emigrate to the United States; and a young mother who leaves her children with her mother to go work in the city where, finally, she is murdered.