Arcangel (Arturo Rios) and Teresa (Ana Graham) is a not so happily married couple with a young daughter. The husband's insomnia and nightmares make the relationship untenable. Teresa throws him out and we get our first glimpse that this film is something other than a straightforward story. Suddenly the child is a lot older but the sense of the conversation between the estranged couple has a sense of weeks rather than years.

Arcangel's brother calls him to say that their father is gravely ill and that he should come visit immediately. When Arcangel arrives he meets an old woman named Isabel (Luisa Huertas). A voodoo type who tells him that his father has been dead for many years and his brother has been in the US for a long time. From this point, the story folds and overlaps, going back at least three generations and traces the relationship that Arcangel has with his father, brother and various women in their lives.

Years earlier the great grandfather looked into the eyes of a coyote, which cursed the family. He also made a trade for a gun, which seemed to have a life of its own. Even when it was buried, seemingly gone and forgotten, it resurfaces at key moments in time to cause rather than solve problems.

As Arcangel mentally time travels back and forth through his family history, he begins to learn about himself and what he might be able to do to break the curse and save his own family.

The message I got from the film was that regardless of your past, and the baggage it can burden you with, you have the power to control your mind and have a positive impact on your future. Luck and fate are always trump cards, which can pull you in a given direction, yet one has the power to push and alter what otherwise appears to be our negative destiny.

Beautifully photographed, this film proves that while we may make grave mistakes, it's not preordained that "we're all such idiots" forever. One's sixth sense, common sense, and learning from experience can cure a lot more than insomnia and nightmares.