"With his eighth and most personal film, Alfonso Cuarón recreated the early-1970s Mexico City of his childhood, narrating a tumultuous period in the life of a middle-class family through the experiences of Cleo, the indigenous domestic worker who keeps the household running. Charged with the care of four small children abandoned by their father, Cleo tends to the family even as her own life is shaken by personal and political upheavals"--Container....

Viewers will see depicted a day in the life of Cristobal, a student who studies economics and listens to various amounts of urban music. The film focuses on the upper class of Mexican society and its relationship with other social classes. Someone throws a party, which is just an excuse to tell a tale about the loss of innocence and about the gradual deterioration of a political system in Mexico.

Told across eight different stories taking place in one 100-year-old room, the film explores the secret lives of its inhabitants, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the dawn of the new millennium. This intricately-woven film gives a compelling and profound portrait of modern Mexico from eight of the country's new breed of cinematic storytellers.