Adriana Portillo

A bolero composer is rejected by record labels because they only want modern music. The composer is starving and goes into a restaurant to have dinner in exchange for playing the old player piano there. When the customers hear him play, they give him money, and the owner hires him permanently. A famous singer becomes interested in performing the composer’s songs, leading him to success in music and in love.

This fairy type of movie is divided in episodes (Figuras) that are settle either on a jail or an play, in this surrealistic film we are immerse in a Dogville type of stage were the combination of Poetry, testaments and political discourse of the mix of characters of the daily basis and religious figures such as Judas, the virgin, the labor workers, homosexuals, drag queens. Ironically 'Figuras de la passion' has been banned for several years as a product of the attack and angriness of right – winged parties and scholars.