A surrealistic, allegorical portrayal of poverty, hunger, and death in a 16th-century Mexican village. "During the feast of All Souls Day, Macario, a Mexican peasant, revolts against his lifetime of poverty by vowing never to eat again until he has a whole turkey for himself. His wife steals one for him, cooks it, and tells him to eat it while his five hungry children are sleeping. His hunger stronger than his conscience, Macario goes into the woods...

"Three delinquents run into an old house to hide from the wrongdoing they committed in the middle of the night. The house was once a general good store long ago where people could leave letters in the mailbox to seek advice for anything that were troubling them. Although the store was supposed to have been shut down, the entrance of these delinquents mysteriously triggers the mailbox to connect the past and present - the letters from the past begins...