Un mexicano en la luna

Comala, Western Mexico. July 1969. We are at the height of the space race, a few weeks away from the arrival of man on the moon.

SIMON is a down-and-out journalist who by day writes tabloid stories for the local newspaper and by night waits tables at the diner owned by his wife MARY. Simon is competing for the position of columnist at a prestigious newspaper in Guadalajara. All he has to deliver is a story that shows his talent, but he has nothing but notes about ghost ships and extraterrestrial skulls...