خلاصه داستان : خرابی تصادفی یک دریچه ای در خندق آبیاری باعث درگیری شدید بین کشاورزان محلی و مقامات فاسد را آغاز می کند...

In Milagro, a small town in the American Southwest, Ladd Devine plans to build a major new resort development. While activist Ruby Archuleta and lawyer/newspaper editor Charlie Bloom realize that this will result in the eventual displacement of the local Hispanic farmers, they cannot arouse much opposition because of the short term opportunities offered by construction jobs.

خلاصه داستان : زیر آتشفشان یک روز از زندگی یک کنسول خود ویرانگر بریتانیا در مکزیک در آستانه جنگ جهانی دوم...

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic disrepair and obscurity in a small southern Mexican town in 1939. The consul's self-destructive behaviour, perhaps a metaphor for a menaced civilization, is a source of perplexity and sadness to his nomadic, idealistic half-brother, Hugh, and his ex-wife, Yvonne, who has returned with hopes of healing Geoffrey and their broken marriage.