Octavio and Susana is the first story that is in the movie. It is about a young man Octavio who lives at home with his mother, his brother, Ramiro, and his brothers girlfriend, Susana. His older brother is mean to Susana even though they have been together for awhile and have had a baby together.
Octavios brother also has a dog that he doesn't care for that well and always gets let out with no one watching him to roam the streets. Ramiro has a job working in a grocery store during the day and then goes out and robs convenience stores at night. One day Susana comes home and lets out the dog. It wanders the streets over to where some people have dog fights and one owner of a fighting dog cant calm his dog down so he sets his dog to fight what he thought was just a wandering stray. One of his friends knew the dog belonged to Octavio so after the dogs fought, Cofi, Ramiros dog wins and the rival dog owner gets mad and brings Cofi back to the house. Octavio comes outside and the rival owner tells him that Ramiro should owe him a dog since he killed his money maker. Octavio and his friend come up with the idea to try out Cofi in dog fights for money since he defeated one of the better dogs out there. They do this and start to make lots of money.
Octavio continues to watch Ramiro treat Susana poorly and tells her that he wants her to run away with him to Warez to start a new life and open a store. She tells him its not a good idea but he gives her money after each of his wins anyway so that she will be able to take care of her baby. One day she disappears with Ramiro and all the money that she had. Octavio wants to have one more fight for big money and get out of town. When both dogs are put into the pit the rival owner shoots Cofi and the bets are off. Octavio is angered and stabs the rival and runs to his car to get out of the area. This is how he crashes his car and gets hurt.
He crashes in a famous model and the accident puts her in a wheelchair. They go to the second story which is called Daniel and Valeria. Valeria is the model who just got signed to do the Enchant ad campaign and has been romantically involved with Daniel who is involved in her business somehow. They recently moved into an apartment together after Daniel seperated from his wife. Valeria has a dog and he gets stuck into a hole underneath the wooden floor. She cannot do a good job to look for the dog because she is in a wheelchair now. But she can hear the dog make noises as if its in pain every now and then. She eventually commits suicide after her agent calls her and tells her she lost the Enchant deal since she cant travel and promote.
The 3rd and final story is "El Chivo and Maru" and is about an old hitman who kills people when the money is right. He is sort of a bum living in an abandoned building with several stray dogs that he finds in the street. He gets approached to do a "job" and accepts for a high fee. While tracking his victim he witnesses the car accident involving Valeria and Octavio. He approaches the car and takes Octavios money and his dog Cofi. Cofi is not dead only injured from the gunshot wound. the hitman patches up Cofi and continues to work on killing his victim. When the hitman comes home, he finds all his dogs dead except for Cofi. This is because Cofi was trained to fight other dogs. El Chivo is very upset about this as the dogs were his only friends. But he presses on and kidnaps his victim, interogates him and finds out he is the half brother of the client so he then kidnaps the client and chains them both to a wall with a gun in between them to decide their fate. Chivo sells both business mans cars and cleans himself up. He breaks into his daughters house and leaves her a large some of money and leaves.
The production value of this movie was very good. It said that no animals were harmed during the filming of this movie but with the editing they definately made it look and sound like the dogs were in vicious fights and mauling each other.
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